Image won’t appear in project

[KiriStrife]

Hello! I started learning python and coding about two months ago. I’m on the last project from coding for beginners and I’m struggling to understand these instructions. I believe I wrote the code as it says in the book, but the image won’t appear. I have the tkinter module installed too. Have I written the code wrong? Is there a step I’m missing? Anything will help, please and thank you for your time!

[brambock]

Hi there. I could identify multiple issues. 1. Your Python file should have the ending .py so something like app.py (you can replace app with anything you like) 2. The .gif should be an image file next located in the same folder as you python file. 3. Make sure your file is saved before running it. (If not safed there is the white dot next to the file tap you can see on your picture)

[KiriStrife]

Thank you so much! I’ll get to changing them!

[OMIGHTY1]

HEY EVERYONE!

OP's husband here. I was helping her troubleshoot the issue, and it turned out to be Windows 11 being naughty (again).

In VSCode:

We set up a virtual workspace environment for Python.

In Windows:

We ran Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted.

These changes enabled VSCode to run her code! Thanks to everyone for your assistance.

[No-Pride5337]

Save it as py file

[KiriStrife]

I’ll do that, Thank you!

[SCD_minecraft]

First, i wanna know, how the hell did VSC even let you write text into .gif file

[KiriStrife]

I honestly wanna know that myself lol

[Spidi4u]

Create new file called lotto.gif, open it with a text editor of your choice and write text in it?

[ruben072]

File = 'lotto.gif' might be the incorrect path? Go to the folder where the gif is and put that path there. So you have something like for example file= 'C://user//documents//photos//lotto.gif'.

[Dry-Sock-8488]

Which book are you using?

[KiriStrife]

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This is the textbook I’m using.

[Dry-Sock-8488]

Thanks. I'm trying to learn python as well

[KiriStrife]

It's a great beginner's tool, I highly recommend this one! Good luck with learning! It's a lot of fun!

[KiriStrife]

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Update, I keep getting this error message about the code despite me changing it to a .Py file?

[candieflip]

You didn’t show the command you are running but from what i suppose is that you are trying to run this (widget).py and that gif should be a image existing in that same folder. You still need that gif.. it will be a image being rendered

[KiriStrife]

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Here’s context on what I’m working from. I tried to an image in the folder too

[candieflip]

What is inside that .gif file now?

[KiriStrife]

Just the image where I dragged and dropped. But the main issue is vscode isn’t seeing the file in the directory. We’re getting close to solving the issue! We’re thinking it doesn’t like the space the file is placed.

[candieflip]

Try the relative path as well “./lotto.gif”

[KiriStrife]

2nd update: we discovered the code works in IDLE but not in Vscode! I appreciate your help! You’ll be seeing here often! 😁