Can't load images with short url

Question

I am making a pygame (chrome dino game) in which I want the image of the dino.
For that I put the image in the same folder as the code... My code is:

self.image = pygame.image.load('main-character1.png')

But it shows error: FileNotFoundError: No such file or directory.
When I put the full path then only it works!

self.image = pygame.image.load('H:\CODING\Python\Games\Chrome Dino Game Python\main-character1.png')

Pls help I want to just write only small url not full...

THANK YOU...!

the same folder may not be the problem, maybe the current working directory? — Dee, Mar 10 '21 at 06:48
make a folder with the name images put the image there and then load an image. — vuun0, Mar 10 '21 at 06:50
check what is your current working directory . `import os print(os.getcwd())`. if you pass filename only, without path, it will search for the file only in the current working directory. — Shijith, Mar 10 '21 at 06:51

Ved Rathi · Accepted Answer · 2021-03-10T07:27:54.333

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try this at the top of the script, make sure that the python file and the image is in the same directory

from pathlib import Path
import os
os.chdir(Path(__file__).parent)

edited Mar 10 '21 at 07:27

answered Mar 10 '21 at 07:01

Ved Rathi

I did not understand what are you trying to tell. Can you pls explain it clearly... – Mar 10 '21 at 07:05
@AryaTholiya make sure the images are in the same folder as the python file – Axisnix Mar 10 '21 at 07:06
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have you imported the os or the sys module? – Ved Rathi Mar 10 '21 at 07:08
The images are in the same folder as the python file... – Mar 10 '21 at 07:09
@VedRathi No I did not import that I only imported pygame and random – Mar 10 '21 at 07:09
So will I have to import that in order to make my code work? – Mar 10 '21 at 07:12
let's see, do the following steps first ```import os``` then ```print(os.getcwd())``` and see what prints out – Ved Rathi Mar 10 '21 at 07:13
The output that you should be expecting is probably this H:\CODING\Python\Games\Chrome Dino Game Python\ – Ved Rathi Mar 10 '21 at 07:14
Umm I dont think it is a long url... – Mar 10 '21 at 07:15
The output is H:\CODING\Python – Mar 10 '21 at 07:15
so that is the problem, ok, got it, I will update my answer, just wait – Ved Rathi Mar 10 '21 at 07:16
Let us [continue this discussion in chat](https://chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/229717/discussion-between-arya-tholiya-and-ved-rathi). – Mar 10 '21 at 07:16

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