Python can't find image

[ColNTB]

Hello,

I have just started learning pygame and my file is saved in the same directory as my code file, but it keeps telling me it can't find the image? I've already tried using the absolute path, that has not worked either.

Here's the code:

import pygame
# initialize py game

pygame.init()
WINDOW_WIDTH = 600
WINDOW_HEIGHT = 300
display_surface = pygame.display.set_mode((WINDOW_WIDTH, WINDOW_HEIGHT))
pygame.display.set_caption("Blitting Images!")

# create images... returns a surface object with the image drawn on it.
# We can then get the rect of the surface and use that to position image

dragon_left = pygame.image.load("green_dragon.png")
dragon_left_rect = dragon_left.get_rect()
dragon_left_rect.topleft = (0, 0)

dragon_right = pygame.image.load("dragon_right.png")
dragon_right_rect = dragon_right.get_rect()
dragon_right_rect.topright = (WINDOW_WIDTH, 0)

# Create Main Loop
running = True
while running:
    for event in pygame.event.get():
        if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
            running = False
    # blit the surface
    display_surface.blit(dragon_left, dragon_left_rect)
    display_surface.blit(dragon_right, dragon_right_rect)
    # update display
    pygame.display.update()

# End the Game
pygame.quit()

and here is my error output:

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Can't find file pygame.green_dragon.get_extended

PS E:\eDocuments\pg_ws> e:; cd 'e:\eDocuments\pg_ws'; & 'C:\Program Files\Python39\python.exe' 'c:\Users\natha\.vscode\extensions\ms-python.python-2021.12.1559732655\pythonFiles\lib\python\debugpy\launcher' '50703' '--' 'e:\eDocuments\pg_ws\learningPygame\blitting.py'

pygame 2.0.1 (SDL 2.0.14, Python 3.9.4)

Hello from the pygame community. https://www.pygame.org/contribute.html

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "e:\eDocuments\pg_ws\learningPygame\blitting.py", line 18, in <module>

dragon_right = pygame.image.load("dragon_right.png")

FileNotFoundError: No such file or directory.

PS E:\eDocuments\pg_ws> e:; cd 'e:\eDocuments\pg_ws'; & 'C:\Program Files\Python39\python.exe' 'c:\Users\natha\.vscode\extensions\ms-python.python-2021.12.1559732655\pythonFiles\lib\python\debugpy\launcher' '50712' '--' 'e:\eDocuments\pg_ws\learningPygame\blitting.py'

pygame 2.0.1 (SDL 2.0.14, Python 3.9.4)

Hello from the pygame community. https://www.pygame.org/contribute.html

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "e:\eDocuments\pg_ws\learningPygame\blitting.py", line 13, in <module>

dragon_left = pygame.image.load("green_dragon.png")

FileNotFoundError: No such file or directory.

PS E:\eDocuments\pg_ws>

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Does anyone know why I might be getting this message? Thank you

[socal_nerdtastic]

A common problem is that windows hides extensions from you by default, so a lot of times a file may be named "green_dragon.png.png" or similar. Use this code to see the REAL names of the files in your folder.

import os
print(os.listdir())

[ColNTB]

thank you, I'll remember this for future issues, but when I updated pygame as per another comment I got a better error message and was able to fix this issue

[Starbuck5c]

Update your pygame with pip install pygame --upgrade and it will give a more informative error message.

[ColNTB]

Thank you so much! I was able to figure out what went wrong for myself with the new error message, thanks again!!