There is no such file when picture opened with Image.show()

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import tkMessageBox
from PIL import Image

    elif UserHand == "Scissors":
            tkMessageBox.showinfo("Your choice","You chose: Scissors")
            im = Image.open('C:\\Users\\Jeroen\\Downloads\\Scissors.jpg')
            im.show()

So. What I am trying to do is when a choice is made that it opens the picture, however the screen does open but it says that the file does not exists.

I checked it and when I go to the file path the picture is there. I hope you can help me

I can't post pictures but here are the pictures i wanted to add in:

http://gyazo.com/ce8ceca3128cdd2c95fbb6d77becf710

http://gyazo.com/bb148fd44d3e8117054e635b67635a80

Thanks, Jeroen

Do you have administrative access on your computer? IIRC, PIL will create a temporary file somewhere that is effectively a copy of the loaded image. If your account has restricted rights, maybe your OS will prevent you from creating that temporary file, and then the picture viewer will have nothing to load. — Kevin, Jan 08 '15 at 15:11
I think it deletes instantly or does not even create the file — Jeroen van der Wal, Jan 08 '15 at 17:21

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:53

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So, I have been looking for a few hours last night and I found it was an error in ImageShow.py

I fixed it using this post: PIL image show() doesn't work on windows 7

edited May 23 '17 at 11:53

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answered Jan 09 '15 at 20:01

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Also see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8932976/python-imaging-library-show-on-windows – Mark Ransom Jan 09 '15 at 20:11
Thank you @MarkRansom! I am now using this with Tkinter but when I use my image with ImageTk.PhotoImage("example.jpg"), I get this error: TclError: image "" doesn't exist. I thought maybe you can help me with it since I can't post another question cause of my low reputation. – Jeroen van der Wal Jan 09 '15 at 20:24
That looks like you're passing an image to a function that requires a filename as a string. – Mark Ransom Jan 09 '15 at 20:39
How would I make it that it reads it as an image, because I am giving the path to it as you can see here: http://gyazo.com/b85e4c062d382d5a6443df38dc7efabd – Jeroen van der Wal Jan 09 '15 at 20:43
You definitely need to ask a new question. The documentation I find says you can do it exactly the way your code shows. – Mark Ransom Jan 09 '15 at 20:55
I can't make a new question at the moment, so I will sit it out and keep trying and searching on how to fix it, I hope it is not something in PIL or Tkinter again. – Jeroen van der Wal Jan 09 '15 at 21:23
I also checked this post: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15718663/tkinter-image-not-showing-or-giving-an-error about .gif – Jeroen van der Wal Jan 09 '15 at 21:29

There is no such file when picture opened with Image.show()

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