Hey all i'm newish to Python but I'm trying to create an image encoder and decoder but Stepic is giving me the following error

Question

from PIL import Image
import stepic
import flask
img = ""
secret = ""
encoded_image = ""

img = input("enter name and extension of image you want to encode: ")
img = img.strip()
img = Image.open



secret = input("Please enter the message you want to encode an image with:  ")

secret = secret.encode()

encoded_image = stepic.encode(img, secret)

encoded_image = input("enter new image name with extension: ")
encoded_image.save

print("Encryption completed ")

When I ran the program it was all good up until It tried to encode the image and it gave me the following errors:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:/Users/liamj/PycharmProjects/CS104/encode test.py", line 19, in <module>
   
 encoded_image = stepic.encode(img, secret)
  File "C:\Users\liamj\PycharmProjects\CS104\venv\lib\site-packages\stepic\__init__.py", line 103, in encode
    image = image.copy()
AttributeError: 'function' object has no attribute 'copy'

I've tried to encode different image types just incase JPGS weren't supported. Any answer or solution would be greatly appreciated! Thanks.