FileNotFound error when loading assets in Pygame

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I am learning how to use Pygame and when I am loading the assets to use in my project it gives me a FileNotFound error. The code it gives me an error at is NORMAL_BINGUS = pygame.image.load(os.path.join('assets', 'Bingus_Normal.jpg'))

The assets folder is in the same folder my code is in, and the image name is exactly the same as I typed above, so I do not know what the cause for this could be.

code may run in different folder and it may search assets in wrong folder - you may need `os.path.join(BASE, 'assets','Bingus_Normal.jpg')` where `BASE = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))` — furas, Dec 17 '21 at 03:51
correction: it has to be `dirname()` instead of `basename()` — furas, Dec 17 '21 at 03:54
this problem was so many times on Stackoverflow so I would rather find some other question and close your question as duplicate. — furas, Dec 17 '21 at 03:59

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited Jan 28 '22 at 00:52

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Code may run in a different folder and it may search assets in the wrong place.

You need to create an absolute path to the folder with the code.

BASE = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))

And later use it to create an absolute path to every asset:

os.path.join(BASE, 'assets', 'Bingus_Normal.jpg')

edited Jan 28 '22 at 00:52

Peter Mortensen

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answered Dec 17 '21 at 04:01

furas

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FileNotFound error when loading assets in Pygame

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