How can I display an image using Pillow?

Question

I want to display a gif image using Pillow

Here is my simple code:

from tkinter import *
from PIL import Image, ImageTk 
import tkinter as Tk 

image = Image.open("Puissance4.gif") 
image.show()

But nothing happens...

All help will be appreciated

Thanks!

Answer 1

PIL provides a show method which attempts to detect your OS and choose an appropriate viewer. On Unix it tries calling the imagemagick command display or xv. On Macs it uses open, on Windows it uses... something else.

If it can't find an appropriate viewer, ImageShow._viewers will be an empty list.

On Raspbian, you'll need to install an image viewer such as display, xv or fim. (Note a search on the web will show that there are many image viewers available.) Then you can tell PIL to use it by specifying the command parameter:

image.show(command='fim')

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To display an image in Tkinter, you could use something like:

from PIL import Image, ImageTk 
import tkinter as tk 

root = tk.Tk()
img = Image.open("image.gif")
tkimage = ImageTk.PhotoImage(img)
tk.Label(root, image=tkimage).pack()
root.mainloop()