Can't open Image on mac with PIL

Question

So I have a short python script that takes in a base64 string that represents an image, and then opens a preview of that image.

Heres my script:

#!/usr/         


        

Answer 1

After digging a bit more, it seems this error from FSPathMakeRef means that the file was not found. So I looked inside my applications folder, and Preview was right there!

When i clicked get info i noticed it was in the /System/Applications/ folder and not in /Applications, so it seems PIL is referencing the wrong location.

My guess is that the application was moved in Catalina and PIL just hasn't been updated yet.

Anyway to fix it I just made a symbolic link where PIL was looking like this:

ln -s /System/Applications/Preview.app /Applications/Preview.app

and it worked like a charm!