How can I display an image file with tkinter?

Question

I want to do a Tkinter-based python program which would allow me to open an image file and to display it in a Label widget. But when I run the program and I click the button to call the OpenFile() function, it does not display the image. How can I display the image in the Label widget ?

Thank you !

My program looks like this :

import tkinter
from tkinter import *
from tkinter import filedialog
from tkinter import messagebox
from PIL import Image, ImageTk

window = Tk() # App main window
menu_bar = Menu(window) # App menu bar

def OpenFile():
  "Open an image"
  try:
    file = filedialog.askopenfilename(initialdir= "E:", filetypes= [("Image file", (".png"))])
    image = Image.open(file)

    img = ImageTk.PhotoImage(image)
    #img.resize(50, 50)

    display = tkinter.Label(window)
    display.image = img
    display.pack()
    return file

  except FileNotFoundError:
    messagebox.showerror("Unfound file", "The selected file was not found.")


file_menu = Menu(menu_bar, tearoff= 0)  # Add a "File" menu to menu_bar
file_menu.add_command(label= "Open file...", command= OpenFile)
file_menu.add_command(label= "Quit...", command= window.destroy)
menu_bar.add_cascade(label= "File", menu= file_menu)
window.config(menu= menu_bar)
window.mainloop()

Answer 1

You forget to assign the image option of tkinter.Label:

display = tkinter.Label(window, image=img) # need to set the image option

I would suggest to create the label once and update its image option inside the function instead:

...
def OpenFile():
  "Open an image"
  try:
    file = filedialog.askopenfilename(initialdir= "", filetypes= [("Image file", (".png"))])
    if file:
        img = ImageTk.PhotoImage(file=file)
        #img.resize(50, 50)

        #display = tkinter.Label(window, image=img)
        display.config(image=img)
        display.image = img
        return file

  except FileNotFoundError:
    messagebox.showerror("Unfound file", "The selected file was not found.")

display = tkinter.Label(window) # create label once
display.pack()
...

Answer 2

Try this:

img = tk.PhotoImage(file="filepath")
tk.Label(window, image=img).pack()

img stores an object containing your image (replace filepath with file)
Then we create a lebel with the image.

Let me know if you need help!