AttributeError: 'PhotoImage' object has no attribute '_PhotoImage__photo'

Question

I am working on Yolo3-4-PY to implement it with tkinter.

I've looked up everywhere but not able to resolve the issue.

When I run the program the canvas is displayed but when I click on Start Video(btton) I get the following error:

Loading weights from weights/yolov3.weights...Done! /usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/PIL/ImageTk.py:119: FutureWarning: elementwise comparison failed; returning scalar instead, but in the future will perform elementwise comparison if mode not in ["1", "L", "RGB", "RGBA"]:

Exception in Tkinter callback
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python3.5/tkinter/__init__.py", line 1553, in __call__
return self.func(*args)
File "webcam_demo.py", line 13, in start_video
show_frame()
File "webcam_demo.py", line 39, in show_frame
imgtk = ImageTk.PhotoImage(image=cv2image)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/PIL/ImageTk.py", line 120, in 
__init__
mode = Image.getmodebase(mode)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/PIL/Image.py", line 313, in 
getmodebase
return ImageMode.getmode(mode).basemode
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/PIL/ImageMode.py", line 55, in 
getmode
return _modes[mode]
TypeError: unhashable type: 'numpy.ndarray'
Exception ignored in: <bound method PhotoImage.__del__ of 
<PIL.ImageTk.PhotoImage object at 0x7f4b73f455c0>>
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/PIL/ImageTk.py", line 130, in 
__del__    name = self.__photo.name
AttributeError: 'PhotoImage' object has no attribute '_PhotoImage__photo'

Solution 1

Issue

In the line imgtk = ImageTk.PhotoImage(image=cv2image), you are passing a numpy array (cv2image) as input to ImageTk.PhotoImage. But the source code of PIL.ImageTk mentions that it requires a PIL image.

This is what source code of PIL.ImageTk mentions for init() of PhotoImage.

class PhotoImage(object):
    .....
    :param image: Either a PIL image, or a mode string.  If a mode string is
              used, a size must also be given.

Solution

So basically, you will have to convert the numpy array to a PIL Image and then pass it to ImageTk.PhotoImage().

So, can you replace the line imgtk = ImageTk.PhotoImage(image=cv2image) with imgtk = ImageTk.PhotoImage(image=PIL.Image.fromarray(cv2image))?

This would convert the numpy array to a PIL Image and it would be passed into the method.

References

I extracted the code for converting a numpy array to PIL Image from this source.

Solution 2

in my case , correct with just simply add this line

root = tkinter.Tk()

complete code :

root = tkinter.Tk()
image = PIL.Image.open(r"C:\Users\Hamid\Desktop\asdasd\2.jpeg")
img = ImageTk.PhotoImage(image)
l = Label(image=img)
l.pack()

Comments

[PaulD]

This worked for me, too. What was specifically happening for me was that, because a root Tk() instance couldn't be found, this exception was being raised: RuntimeError(f"Too early to {what}: no default root window"), which seems to be raised whenever one tries to initialize a PhotoImage object without having a Tk() instance.