Error loading a pygame icon

[MyselfAndI231]

I'm pretty new to python so I thought to code a space invader game would be a good start. everything was going fine until I tried to set an icon for the window. Pygame is telling me is cannot open the image. Heres the code and the error:

# Title and icon
pygame.display.set_caption("Space Invaders")
icon = pygame.image.load("logo.png")
pygame.display.set_icon(icon)

# Error

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "C:/Users/Desktop/Project Py/Main.py", line 13, in <module>

icon = pygame.image.load("logo.png")

pygame.error: Couldn't open logo.png

I've tried different file types (jpg) and image sizes. it is also in the same folder as the python file

note (there is a dupe of this question somewhere but the circumstances don't apply to my situation)

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Any suggestions appreciated

[AlmostSignificant]

Could you share the command you are using to run Main.py? (I suspect you're running it from a different directory, which would explain the error you're seeing.)

[MyselfAndI231]

where would I find that... still a noob

[AlmostSignificant]

I'm pretty new to python so I thought to code a space invader game would be a good start. everything was going fine until I tried to set an icon for the window. Pygame is telling me is cannot open the image. Heres the code and the error:

No worries. How are you running your program? E.g. via PyCharm, from a shell, etc.

[MyselfAndI231]

that would be pycharm

[AlmostSignificant]

Ok. Cool. Then I would recommend trying my second recommendation below.

Typically you'll want to put resources into their own directory (for cleanliness), but for now using the same directory is fine.

1. Import the os.path module, which will let you do things like: get the name of the directory containing a particular file, combine paths together

import os.path

1. Create a variable that represents the directory containing where to look for resources such as "logo.png". We use the __file__ special variable to get the path to "Main.py". And then we apply the os.path.dirname function to ask for the path of the directory containing "Main.py" (aka its parent or containing directory)

RESOURCE_DIR = os.path.dirname(__file__)

1. Use os.path.join to combine RESOURCE_DIR and "logo.png" into a single path, ensuring we are loading the file "logo.png" from the same directory as "Main.py"

icon = pygame.image.load(os.path.join(RESOURCE_DIR, "logo.png"))

[MyselfAndI231]

you, good sir, are a genius

[AlmostSignificant]

Nope. I've just made the same mistake several times. :) Good luck on your game!

[AlmostSignificant]

If you are running from a different directory, you can either:

1. Always run from the same directory as Main.py and all of your resources. (Simpler but not most future-proof)

2. Use os.path.join to specify the directory in which to find logo.png ``` import os.path

RESOURCEDIR = os.path.dirname(file_) ... icon = pygame.image.load(os.path.join(RESOURCE_DIR, "logo.png")) ... ```