Why can't pyautogui find the picture?

Question

import pyautogui
    
button7location = pyautogui.locateOnScreen('picturee.png')
print("finished")

The picture works perfect in a HTML file i created.

Answer 1

Digging into the source code, we are directed from pyautogui to pyscreeze where we can see the following block of code in the location functions.

    if isinstance(needleImage, (str, unicode)):
        # 'image' is a filename, load the Image object
        needleFileObj = open(needleImage, 'rb')
        needleImage = Image.open(needleFileObj)

In short, you need the image to be in the same directory as the one you're launching the script from.

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