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Pycharm can't read a file (which is in the directory), and it gives me the error message "FileNotFoundError: No file 'images.png' found in working directory '/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.12/lib/python3.12/site-packages/video /.venv'
this is the full code:

import pygame

pygame.init()
WINDOW_WIDTH, WINDOW_HEIGHT = 1280, 720
pygame.display.set_caption("Space Shooter")
display_surface = pygame.display.set_mode((WINDOW_WIDTH, WINDOW_HEIGHT))
running = True

surf = pygame.Surface((100, 200))
surf.fill("orange")
x = 100

player_surface = pygame.image.load('images.png')


while running:
    for event in pygame.event.get():
        if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
            running = False

    display_surface.fill('darkgray')
    x += 0.1
    display_surface.blit(surf, (x, 150))
    pygame.display.update()
pygame.quit()

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I usually get the path to the working script to load a file.

from pathlib import Path

path = Path(__file__).parent


image = pygame.image.load(f'{path}/my_img.png')

A few questions here.

Why is your virtual environment in your python distribution? You should not be adding folders to site packages, except through pip or some other package manager.

Why is your current working directory in you python distribution. You should not save the files you write in your python distribution.

Make a folder under your home folder. You should not be doing anything in /library... Put your python files in your new folder under home. Create your virtual environment in your new folder under home. When you start a new project, create a new folder, making it a practice to make a new folder and a new virtual environment, and keeping all your folders together in that folder and apart from your python distribution(s).

Im extremely new at Python, so could you explain that in more simple terms, because I have no idea on what any on that means. Sorry.

Thanks, I used this code and replaced (__file__) with the file path, and it worked perfectly

You have not fixed your problem. __file__ should not be "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.12/lib/python3.12/site-packages/video /.venv" as reported in the error messages because you should never be creating files at that location.

There should not be a .venv folder in "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.12/lib/python3.12/site-packages/video". .venv is a folder created by PyCharm. It is a special version of Python called a "virtual environment" that pycharm created for running your program. A virtual environment protects the "system python" from getting messed up when you install packages or different versions of python. The .venv folder should never be under "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions". It should be in a folder you created for doing your project work.

I suspect that "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.12/lib/python3.12/site-packages/video" is also in the wrong place. A very quick scan of PyPI (python package index) did not reveal any common packages that create a "video" folder in the "site-packages" folder. I don't think this folder is a python package you installed on your computer. My guess is you created this folder for doing your python work. The problem is that you created the folder in the wrong place.