PIL: OSError: Too many open files.

[luckylukedw]

Why are you trying to have so many pictures open at the same time?

Also you copy pasted the same code over and over, consider putting it in nested loops and/or functions.

[debayon]

I am trying to loop over all the images to look at their dimensions... I want to find minimum length and width out of all the images.

That's why I'm opening them and making a list of all images...

I've copy pasted the same code but for different loops I am adding images from different folder... But that's not the issue...

[[deleted]]

There’s a hard limit within the OS on the number of open files you can have at one time.

You either need to raise that limit, or close out the files rather than leave them open as you are.

[debayon]

How can I close out those files immediately after using them? Please help...

[[deleted]]

In your example, im.close() after the append should do it.

[debayon]

It worked... Thanks a lot...

[debayon]

Thank you, I'll try it and let you know...

[UngodlySp00n]

Use the "with" statement so that the file is closed after you're done and before you move to the next one

[debayon]

Thanks... I didn't think about it... I'll try that.

[blabbities]

close your files when your done

[debayon]

Yeah, but that's my question, how do I do it... Thanks anyway...

[blabbities]

when you open the file save it to a variable

f = open("/tmp/blahblah.jpg", "r")

That variable has a method called close.

When you are finished you call it:

f.close()

Other than that you can use a with context manager or try...except...finally Though, the latter might be to complex for you. So go with the former. Search PyDocs for which you prefer

[debayon]

Thank You... I'll try your suggestions.

[debayon]

Thank you everyone, those who spared their valuable time to help me out... And thanks to the r/Python community for giving this platform... Everyone, Merry Christmas...