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I was trying to load a png file to python by pygame and it doesn't work
this is my code:

import pygame

from pygame.locals import *

pygame.init()

display_width = 800

display_height = 600

black = (0,0,0)

white = (255,255,255)

red = (255,0,0)



gameDisplay = pygame.display.set_mode((display_width,display_height))

pygame.display.set_caption("Game")

clock = pygame.time.Clock()

carImage = pygame.image.load('you.png')

def car(x,y):

    gameDisplay.blit(carImage,(x,y))

    x = (display_width * 0.45)

    y = (display_height * 0.8)

    crashed = False

    while not crashed:

       for event in pygame.event.get():

           if event.type == pygame.QUIT:

               crashed = True

       gameDisplay.fill(white)

       car(x,y)

       pygame.display.update()

       clock.tick(24)

    pygame.quit()

    quit()

and it says:

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "C:/Users/Dawn/PycharmProjects/snakegame/snake.py", line 13, in
carImage = pygame.image.load('you.png')

pygame.error: Couldn't open you.png

Please help me I don't know why this keep showing.

I'm using window 10 now and I did the C: ....you.png method
but it still doesn't work.

Based on this answer, it's recommended to use relative paths instead. It's always better to do so, since you don't have to care about '', '/' or OS (someone already did it for us :v).

The problem seems to be it, because the code below works well for me. It's been considered you have an images_store folder to store your images at same father directory as your .py file (of course, you can change it any way you want).

import pygame

import os.path as osp

from pygame.locals import *





pygame.init()



display_width, display_height = 800, 600

black = (0,0,0)

white = (255,255,255)

red = (255,0,0)



current_path = osp.dirname(__file__)                          # Where your .py file is located

image_path = osp.join(current_path, 'images_store')           # The image folder path

carImage = pygame.image.load(osp.join(image_path, 'you.png'))





gameDisplay = pygame.display.set_mode((display_width, display_height))

pygame.display.set_caption("Game")

clock = pygame.time.Clock()



def car(x,y):

   gameDisplay.blit(carImage, (x, y))



x = (display_width * 0.45)

y = (display_height * 0.8)

crashed = False

while not crashed:

   for event in pygame.event.get():

       if event.type == pygame.QUIT:

           crashed = True

   gameDisplay.fill(white)

   car(x,y)

   pygame.display.update()

   clock.tick(24)

pygame.quit()

quit()

p.s.1 - See more information about os.path here.

p.s.2 - I'm using MacOS.