On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 12:43:17AM +0530, Vipul Sharma wrote: > Hello ! I am a beginner in pygame, i was just trying a simple pygame > program where I wanted to load an image (.png) from the same directory > where my actual source code was. > I wrote this line in my source code to load the image : > > Img = pygame.image.load('cat.png') > > But I got a traceback : > > pygame.error: File is not a Windows BMP file > > Can anyone pls tell what is the problem with the code, why this error > arises ?
Is the error message not clear enough? The file is a PNG file, not a Windows BMP file. By default, pygame only supports BMP images. If you want to use a more useful range of image types, like PNG, JPG, and so forth, you need to build pygame with image support. See here for more information: http://www.pygame.org/docs/ref/image.html -- Steven _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor