sorl.thumbnail : 'thumbnail' is not a valid tag library?
Question: I am trying to install sorl.thumbnail but am getting the following error
message:

'thumbnail' is not a valid tag library: Could not load template library from
django.templatetags.thumbnail, No module named PIL

This error popped up in this question as well  
<http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1356334/need-help-solving-sorl-thumbnail-
error-thumbnail-is-not-a-valid-tag-library>  
but the solution offered there is no good for me. The solution was to append
the project folder to all imports in the sorl files. I want to keep my apps
separate from the project they are in for obvious reasons.

I have placed the sorl folder in my project folder  
I have placed 'sorl.thumbnaills' under installed apps  
and finally placed {% load thumbnail %} in base.html

    
    
    $python2.5 
    >>>import PIL
    >>>import sorl
    

These work.

Using python2.5, on ubuntu 9.04 with django 1.1 with appengine-patch

To try some other things out i placed in settings.py file:

    
    
    import sys
    sys.path.append("/home/danielle/bu3/mysite/sorl/thumbnail")
    

But that didnt work either. Some more help would be appreciated ... how should
i change my path?

current path (without above mentioned import): ['/home/danielle/bu3/mysite',
'/home/danielle/bu3/mysite/common',
'/home/danielle/bu3/mysite/common/appenginepatch/appenginepatcher/lib',
'/home/danielle/bu3/mysite/common/zip-packages/django-1.1.zip',
'/home/danielle/bu3/mysite/common/appenginepatch',
'/usr/local/google_appengine', '/usr/local/google_appengine/lib/antlr3',
'/usr/local/google_appengine/lib/yaml/lib',
'/usr/local/google_appengine/lib/django',
'/usr/local/google_appengine/lib/webob', '/home/danielle/bu3/mysite',
'/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c9-py2.5.egg',
'/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/ZopeSkel-2.10-py2.5.egg',
'/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/virtualenv-1.3.2-py2.5.egg',
'/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pip-0.3.1-py2.5.egg',
'/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/virtualenvwrapper-1.12-py2.5.egg',
'/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/PyYAML-3.08-py2.5-linux-i686.egg',
'/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/xlutils-1.3.0-py2.5.egg',
'/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/errorhandler-1.0.0-py2.5.egg',
'/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/xlwt-0.7.1-py2.5.egg',
'/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/xlrd-0.7.0-py2.5.egg',
'/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Fabric-0.0.9-py2.5.egg',
'/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/multitask-0.2.0-py2.5.egg',
'/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/logilab.pylintinstaller-0.15.2-py2.5.egg',
'/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pylint-0.15.2-py2.5.egg',
'/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/clonedigger-1.0.9_beta-py2.5.egg',
'/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yolk-0.4.1-py2.5.egg',
'/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/MySQL_python-1.2.3c1-py2.5-linux-i686.egg',
'/usr/lib/python2.5', '/usr/lib/python2.5/plat-linux2',
'/usr/lib/python2.5/lib-tk', '/usr/lib/python2.5/lib-dynload',
'/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages', '/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages',
'/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Numeric', '/usr/lib/python2.5/site-
packages/PIL', '/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gst-0.10', '/var/lib/python-
support/python2.5', '/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gtk-2.0',
'/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/gtk-2.0', '/usr/lib/python2.5/site-
packages/wx-2.8-gtk2-unicode']


Answer: Is is a typo in your question? You have mis-spelled 'thumbnails' - for the
installed apps you have two l's, i.e.

`'sorl.thumbnaills'`

rather than

    
    
    'sorl.thumbnails'
    

if you run `sync.db` does it return an error?

