Fixing PIL/Pillow IOError: decoder zip not available
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The error IOError: decoder zip not available (or zip decoder not available) is a common hurdle when working with image processing in Python, particularly when handling PNG or TIFF files using the Pillow library.
This error indicates that the underlying C library responsible for image compression (Zlib) was missing or not detected when Pillow was compiled on your system.
