Showing an image from console in Python

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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 which contains links to images stored locally  How should I write the script so that it would display images pop-up graphical windows

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In Xterm-compatible terminals  you can show the image directly in the terminal  See my answer to  PPM image to ASCII art in Python

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Using the awesome Pillow library    gt  gt  gt  from PIL import Image                                                                                  gt  gt  gt  img   Image open  test png    gt  gt  gt  img show      This will open the image in your default image viewer

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You cannot display images in a console window  You need a graphical toolkit such as Tkinter  PyGTK  PyQt  PyKDE  wxPython  PyObjC or PyFLTK  There are plenty of tutorial how to create siomple windows and loading images iun python

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I made a simple tool that will display an image given a filename or image object or url  It s crude  but it ll do in a hurry   Installation      pip install simple-imshow   Usage   from simshow import simshow simshow  some local file jpg      display from local file simshow  http   mathandy com escher sphere png      display from url

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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

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In a new window using Pillow PIL  Install Pillow  or PIL   e g      pip install pillow   Now you can  from PIL import Image with Image open  path to file jpg   as img      img show     Using native apps  Other common alternatives include running xdg-open or starting the browser with the image path   import webbrowser webbrowser open  path to file jpg     Inline a Linux console  If you really want to show the image inline in the console and not as a new window  you may do that but only in a Linux console using fbi see ask Ubuntu or else use ASCII-art like CACA

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You can also using the Python module Ipython  which in addition to displaying an image in the Spyder console can embed images in Jupyter notebook  In Spyder  the image will be displayed in full size  not scaled to fit the console    from IPython display import Image  display display Image filename  mypic png

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Why not just display it in the user s web browser

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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

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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

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