Newbie question on Tkinter
Fredrik Lundh
fredrik at pythonware.com
Mon Jul 8 17:19:58 EDT 2002
Michele Simionato wrote:
> I have found a confusing (to me) behavior of Tkinter in
> displaying GIF images.
it's a "feature", sort of -- Tkinter doesn't hang on to PhotoImage
objects (they're just things that can be converted to strings), so
Python's garbage collector might decide to remove them.
for a bit more information, see:
http://effbot.org/zone/tkinter-photoimage.htm
this is also discussed in the Python FAQ:
http://www.python.org/doc/FAQ.html#4.69
> P.S. BTW, how to display jpeg images ?
PIL can help. follow the effbot.org link above for an
example.
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