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Andy G
Andy G

Reputation: 75

inserting image into label

I am told that I can add images to a label, but when I run the following code I get an error message:

unicode error: unicodeescape codec can't decode bytes in position 2-3: truncated \UXXXXXX escape

My code is as simple as possible

from tkinter import *
root = Tk()
x = PhotoImage(file="C:\Users\user\Pictures\bee.gif")
w1 = Label(root, image=x).pack()
root.mainloop()

All the examples I've seen don't include the file path to the image but in that case Python can't find the image.

What am I doing wrong ??

Upvotes: 2

Views: 703

Answers (1)

Bryan Oakley
Bryan Oakley

Reputation: 386382

Python is treating \Users as a unicode character because of the leading \U. Since it's an invalid unicode character, you get the error.

You can either use forward slashes ("C:/Users/user/Pictures/bee.gif"), a raw string (r"C:\Users\user\Pictures\bee.gif"), or escape the backslashes ("C:\\Users\\user\\Pictures\\bee.gif")

Upvotes: 2

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