Pillow fails during docker build

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Step 9/18 : RUN pip3 install pillow ---> Running in 4490f2c5b3f2 Collecting pillow Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/2b/06/93bf1626ef36815010e971a5ce90f49919d84ab5d2fa310329f843a74bc1/Pillow-8.0.1.tar.gz (44.6MB) Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info: Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in File "/tmp/pip-build-_v_le2ma/pillow/setup.py", line 42 f"Pillow {PILLOW_VERSION} does not support Python " ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax

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Fixed it by upgrading pip prior to the pillow install 32 # Install PIL library 33 # 34 RUN pip3 install --upgrade pip 35 RUN pip3 install pillow