How to display a png file from a webpage on a tk label in Python?

Question

I\'m new to python and I\'m on a windows 7 64 bit with python 3.3. I can display a gif image with the following code. However I can\'t make it work with png files. How to do tha

Answer 1

You should use PIL (or pillow). You can find pillow windows binary here.

Try following example after you install pillow:

from io import BytesIO
import urllib
import urllib.request
import tkinter as tk
from PIL import Image, ImageTk
root = tk.Tk()
url = "http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/python.png"
with urllib.request.urlopen(url) as u:
    raw_data = u.read()
im = Image.open(BytesIO(raw_data))
image = ImageTk.PhotoImage(im)
label = tk.Label(image=image)
label.pack()
root.mainloop()