Re: [pygame] image-loading path

thanks a lot everybody!

my path was not quite right i finaly found out (thanks to os.path.abspath).

the whole problem arose because i want to move my project to a package (there are way to many files now for 1 folder). i thought quite a while about and now want to use this structure:

[project]

|- [data]

|- [image]

|- [font]

|- etc.

|- [engine]

|- control.py

|- view.py

|- game.py

|- etc.

|- main.py

|- setup.py

what do you think?

cheers

olaf

2008/7/14 Paul Pigg <masterpigg@xxxxxxxxx>:

Oh yeah, forgot about mentioning that - I just used the OP example, but if you want cross-platform support, that is definately the way to go. :)

--p

On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 11:04 AM, DR0ID <dr0id@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi

btw, I would use os.path.join(...) to join your path (because /home/users/... might look different on different platforms e.g. \home\users\... ).

Usage:
p = os.path.join('home', 'users', ...)

~DR0ID

Paul Pigg schrieb:

I would use os.path.abspath() to see if the path you think you are passing is what is actually being passed.
e.g.,

import os, pygame

p = os.path.abspath("../images/image.png")
print p
pygame.image.load(p)

--p

On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 9:23 AM, Dan Krol <orblivion@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:orblivion@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:

Lets say you have:

/home/user/project/
/home/user/project/images
/home/user/project/scriptst/game.py

You say:

cd /home/user/project/
python scripts/game.py

You would want your images referenced as "images/image.png"

If however, you say:

cd /home/user/project/scripts
python game.py

You would want your images referenced as "../images/image.png"

In other words, your image path is relative to where you cd to, not
where game.py is.

On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 11:19 AM, Olaf Nowacki <ioa@xxxxxxx
<mailto:ioa@xxxxxxx>> wrote:
> can you give an example?
>
> 2008/7/14 Forrest Voight <voights@xxxxxxxxx
<mailto:voights@xxxxxxxxx>>:

>>
>> Yes, but the path is relative to where you are running the script
>> from, not where the script is.
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 11:43 AM, Olaf Nowacki <ioa@xxxxxxx
<mailto:ioa@xxxxxxx>> wrote:
>> > hi everyone,
>> > is it possible to load an image with pygame.image.load() that
is not in
>> > the
>> > same folder (or a subfolder), but higher up in the file-tree?
i tried
>> > giving
>> > "../data/images/image.png" as argument, but it didn't work.
>> > here i tried to illustrate what i mean:
>> > [game]
>> > |- [engine]
>> > |- tools.load_image()
>> > |- [data]
>> > |-[images]
>> > |- image.png
>> > thanks in advance!
>> > olaf
>> >
>
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