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Problem with absolute path to file (Mr.Stickman Problems) - SheeppOSU - Jun-26-2018
Right now I'm working on getting the backround. So I ran into a problem and someone said to provide the absolute value of the file of the picture so I did that but it still doesnt work can someone please tell me whats wrong with it.
from tkinter import *
import random
import time
import os
class Game:
def __init__(self):
self.tk = Tk()
self.tk.title("Mr.Stickman Races for the Exit")
self.tk.resizable(0, 0)
self.tk.wm_attributes("-topmost", 1)
self.canvas = Canvas(self.tk, width=500, height=500, highlightthicknes=0)
self.canvas.pack()
self.tk.update()
self.canvas_height = 500
self.canvas_width = 500
self.bg = PhotoImage(file=os.path.abspath('Background.gif.xcf'))
w = self.bg.width()
h = self.gb.height()
for x in range(0, 5):
for y in range(0, 5):
self.canvas.create_image_(x * w, y * h, image=self.bg, anchor='nw')
self.sprites = []
self.running = True
def mainloop(self):
while 1:
if self.running == True:
for sprite in self.sprites:
sprite.move()
self.tk.update_idletasks()
self.tk.update()
time.sleepp(0.01)
g = Game()
g.mainloop
Error:Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\sheep\Desktop\Ayden's Apps\Mr.Stick Man.py", line 35, in <module>
g = Game()
File "C:\Users\sheep\Desktop\Ayden's Apps\Mr.Stick Man.py", line 17, in __init__
self.bg = PhotoImage(file=os.path.abspath('Background.gif.xcf'))
File "C:\Users\sheep\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\tkinter\__init__.py", line 3539, in __init__
Image.__init__(self, 'photo', name, cnf, master, **kw)
File "C:\Users\sheep\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\tkinter\__init__.py", line 3495, in __init__
self.tk.call(('image', 'create', imgtype, name,) + options)
_tkinter.TclError: couldn't open "C:\Users\sheep\Desktop\Ayden's Apps\Background.gif.xcf": no such file or directory
>>> RE: Mr.Stickman Problems - woooee - Jun-26-2018
This s pretty self-explanatory
Quote:_tkinter.TclError: couldn't open "C:\Users\sheep\Desktop\Ayden's Apps\Background.gif.xcf": no such file or directory
Python will use a forward slash on any OS so try
Quote:"C:/Users/sheep/Desktop/Ayden's Apps/Background.gif.xcf"
RE: Mr.Stickman Problems - buran - Jun-26-2018
@woooee - although you are 100% correct and one should use forward slash or raw string when provide path as string, in this case the path is created with this code
os.path.abspath('Background.gif.xcf') and thus it is not backslash problem.@SheeppOSU: Now if you look at the docs, you would see that
os.path.abspath(path) is equivalent (on most systems) to normpath(join(os.getcwd(), path)). Given that OP provides just a file name, it will construct absolute path based on current working directory. I would guess that the file is indeed NOT in the current working directory. In other words it is a problem due to OP misunderstanding how os.path.abspath(path) works.You should provide absolute path as a string(using forward slash)/raw string or use proper python tools to construct the correct path.
RE: Problem with absolute path to file (Mr.Stickman Problems) - Larz60+ - Jun-26-2018
Sometimes when you start a program from another directory, or call a subprogram, the working directory mat not be what you thing it is.
This can be a problem is you assume it starts with the python file directory.
You can assure a starting location with the following snippet:
import os path = os.path.dirname(__file__) os.chdir(path)you can then get the absolute path to your 'Background.gif.xcf' (is that really the file name?) file by using a relative
path as argument to os.path.abspath(relative_path) (of course replacing relative path with something like 'images/Background.gif.xcf')