Gui slot machine-out of memory error

[steve_shambles]

Thank you for your reply deanhystad.

I tried your bit of code, but it doesn't seem to return a
the filenames as I would of expected, eg. pyimage1, pyimage2 etc.
instead of:
cards/gfx/FH.png
cards/gfx/FD.png
etc.

I ran the code separately to test this to make sure:

from tkinter import Tk, PhotoImage
root = Tk()

spinner = ['FH', 'FD', 'FC',
           'WH', 'WD', 'WC',
           'JH', 'JD', 'JC', 'JS',
           'QH', 'QD', 'QC', 'QS',
           'KH', 'KD', 'KC', 'KS',
           'AH', 'AD', 'AC', 'AS',
           'BH', 'BD', 'BC']
images = []
for name in spinner:
    images.append(PhotoImage(file='cards/gfx/'+name+'.png'))
    print(name)

print(images[0])

output:
FH
FD
FC
WH
WD
WC
JH
JD
JC
JS
QH
QD
QC
QS
KH
KD
KC
KS
AH
AD
AC
AS
BH
BD
BC
pyimage1

Destroying the labels does nothing to the images. The images remain as long as their reference count is > 0. Since you keep reusing PHOTO I would expect all of your labels to display the same card. Maybe they would if set all the images first and then updated.

I do not know exactly when unreferenced objects are deleted in Python, but you are defeating it somehow.

Pre-allocating the images is easy. Easier than what you are doing now.

def make_images():
    spinner = ['FH', 'FD', 'FC',
               'WH', 'WD', 'WC',
               'JH', 'JD', 'JC', 'JS',
               'QH', 'QD', 'QC', 'QS',
               'KH', 'KD', 'KC', 'KS',
               'AH', 'AD', 'AC', 'AS',
               'BH', 'BD', 'BC']
    images = []
    for name in spinner:
        images.append(PhotoImage(file='cards/gfx/'+name+'.png')
    return images