Opening a GIF picture with PIL in Python

Question

I am trying to open a GIF file but it is coming up with a syntax error i do not understand. Does the image have to change to PNG / JPEG because i am trying to keep transparency which would be lost if i have to change the file type.

The Syntax Error i don't understand

I have tried to keep the image and open it with Turtle by using screen.addshape. That works for the image however i have had a problem with resizing the image so i am having to use the PIL library to open the images and then resize them

Answer 1

Image.open("your.gif") should work. However, the path is not the string you think it is. \\ is the escape character. To type a \\ , you will need to use \\\\ in stead of \\ .

Thus Image.open("C:\\Your\\Path\\to a funny\\image.gif") becomes Image.open("C:\\\\Your\\\\Path\\\\to a funny\\\\image.gif") or Image.open(r"C:\\Your\\Path\\to a funny\\image.gif") (a raw string).

Answer 2

其导致问题的文件路径的字符串编码请参阅： “Unicode 错误”unicodeescape”编解码器无法解码字节...无法在 Python 3 中打开文本文件