PIL thinks every image I give it is corrupted - python-imaging-library

Question

I'm trying to get an array of RGB values for a jpeg. Using the code
from PIL import Image
im = Image.open('lion.jpg')
pix = list(im.getdata())
gives the error
IOError: broken data stream when reading image file
The picture in the code is this one, which I got from google for testing:
but the code returns the same error for every picture I've tried, from a variety of sources (google, phone, etc...). When I push forward and load the image anyway, all the pixel values are black.
I've tried doing
from PIL import Image, ImageFile
ImageFile.LOAD_TRUNCATED_IMAGES = True
but all that does is suppress the error; the pixel values are still black.
It seems other people have had this problem elsewhere, like here, but so far other solutions have failed me. Any suggestions?
I'm on Mac 10.10, with python 2.7.8. I first installed Pillow with pip, and then from the source. I have confirmed that libjpeg is installed.

Answer 1

I don't really have an answer, but I can give you the setup of mine for which this is working fine.
The following script:
from PIL import Image
if __name__ == '__main__':
im = Image.open('lion.jpg'))
pix = list(im.getdata())
print('The image has {} pixels'.format(len(pix)))
import PIL, sys
print('Using Python version {}'.format(sys.version))
print('Using PIL version {}'.format(PIL.VERSION))
print('Using Pillow version {}'.format(PIL.PILLOW_VERSION))
Gives as a result on my Macbook with OS X El Capitan (10.11.6):
The image has 1183000 pixels
Using Python version 3.5.1 |Continuum Analytics, Inc.| (default, Dec 7 2015, 11:24:55)
[GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5577)]
Using PIL version 1.1.7
Using Pillow version 3.1.0
Process finished with exit code 0