Showing an image from console in Python

Question

What is the easiest way to show a .jpg or .gif image from Python console?

I\'ve got a Python console program that is checking a data set wh

Answer 1

Using the awesome Pillow library:

>>> from PIL import Image                                                                                
>>> img = Image.open('test.png')
>>> img.show() 

This will open the image in your default image viewer.

Answer 2

If you would like to show it in a new window, you could use Tkinter + PIL library, like so:

import tkinter as tk
from PIL import ImageTk, Image

def show_imge(path):
    image_window = tk.Tk()
    img = ImageTk.PhotoImage(Image.open(path))
    panel = tk.Label(image_window, image=img)
    panel.pack(side="bottom", fill="both", expand="yes")
    image_window.mainloop()

This is a modified example that can be found all over the web.

Answer 3

Since you are probably running Windows (from looking at your tags), this would be the easiest way to open and show an image file from the console without installing extra stuff like PIL.

import os
os.system('start pic.png')

Answer 4

Or simply execute the image through the shell, as in

import subprocess
subprocess.call([ fname ], shell=True)

and whatever program is installed to handle images will be launched.