How to load PNG files with pygame.image?

Question

I\'m simply trying to load an image with pygame with that piece of code :

import pygame
myimage = pygame.image.load(\"bla.png\")

And I get

Answer 1

The Pygame documentation for images explicitly says

The image module is a required dependency of Pygame, but it only optionally supports any extended file formats. By default it can only load uncompressed BMP images.

So, I suppose you should run

pygame.image.get_extended() # returns a bool

to check if you can load images of other extensions. If not, I suppose you will need Python imaging libraries to be installed to get extended file formats to be supported by Pygame.

OR, you could always convert the images to BMP to avoid the hassle.