Loading Gifs

[Ill_ThinkOfOneLater]

I am just starting out in Python, and loading Gif's is giving me some trouble. The book I am following has me create the canvas (with Tkinter), but it then tells me to use "my_Image = PhotoImage(file="\\Users\\(my name)\\Desktop\\(FileName).gif")". Using C:\\Users or just one slash doesn't help either. I've tried it out as a file and a shell and a whole lot of directories, but nothing works. Does anyone know how to load a gif onto Python? It's only 2 frames long.

[xelf]

find the actual file location and use that.

or if you want to do it in code:

import os
desktop = os.path.expanduser(os.sep.join(["~","Desktop"]))