title: How to use Pillow to display an image?
body: <p>Edit:
  It might help to know that I'm using python 2.7.9 (that's what was taught in my GIS class).
  I've almost got it working I think. Although now it's a new question.
  I have this code</p>
  
  <pre><code>from PIL import Image
  im = Image.open("C:/users/Chrostopher/Asuna.png")
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>There are no error messages and my screen flashed black like it wanted to do something, but the picture didn't show/open/display. What should I do?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks for all the help so far. I feel like I'm slowly (and with many mistakes) learning something useful.
  Old:
  I am very, very new at this, which is why I'm asking. I've looked around for help, but there's always one thing I don't understand and it's just turned into a very deep rabbit hole.
  When I've tried the code I've seen here, it doesn't work. Looking further, I need the Python Image Library (PIL). I've downloaded it, but I can't figure out how to set it up to work in Python. The file is a .gz. Is there some place I need to put the file or some way to import it?
  If you could answer step by step, that would be wonderful for this extreme newb.</p>
  
  <p>This is the code I have (to try and open an image which is the end goal)</p>
  
  <pre><code>import Image
  def main():
      filename = "desert.jpg"
      image = Image.open(filename)
      image.show
      del image
  
  if (__name__ == "__main__"):
      main()
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Is there something I'm missing or not doing right that is messing up what I'm trying to do?</p>