I would use os.path.abspath() to see if the path you think you are passing
is what is actually being passed.
e.g.,
import os, pygame
p = os.path.abspath("../images/image.png")
print p
pygame.image.load(p)
--p
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 9:23 AM, Dan Krol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Lets say you have:
>
> /home/user/project/
> /home/user/project/images
> /home/user/project/scriptst/game.py
>
> You say:
>
> cd /home/user/project/
> python scripts/game.py
>
> You would want your images referenced as "images/image.png"
>
> If however, you say:
>
> cd /home/user/project/scripts
> python game.py
>
> You would want your images referenced as "../images/image.png"
>
> In other words, your image path is relative to where you cd to, not
> where game.py is.
>
> On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 11:19 AM, Olaf Nowacki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > can you give an example?
> >
> > 2008/7/14 Forrest Voight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >>
> >> Yes, but the path is relative to where you are running the script
> >> from, not where the script is.
> >>
> >> On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 11:43 AM, Olaf Nowacki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> > hi everyone,
> >> > is it possible to load an image with pygame.image.load() that is not
> in
> >> > the
> >> > same folder (or a subfolder), but higher up in the file-tree? i tried
> >> > giving
> >> > "../data/images/image.png" as argument, but it didn't work.
> >> > here i tried to illustrate what i mean:
> >> > [game]
> >> > |- [engine]
> >> > |- tools.load_image()
> >> > |- [data]
> >> > |-[images]
> >> > |- image.png
> >> > thanks in advance!
> >> > olaf
> >> >
> >
> >
> >
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> > 12045 Berlin
> >
> > 0178 - 688 38 05
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