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I've switched over to Python 2.7 (from 3.4) recently, and I'm having trouble reading a .png file with Tkinter Photoimage class. I say:

background = "background.png"
photo = tk.PhotoImage(file=background)

But I get this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "main.py", line 36, in <module>
    photo = tk.PhotoImage(file=background)
  File "c:\Python27\lib\lib-tk\Tkinter.py", line 3323, in __init__
    Image.__init__(self, 'photo', name, cnf, master, **kw)
  File "c:\Python27\lib\lib-tk\Tkinter.py", line 3279, in __init__
    self.tk.call(('image', 'create', imgtype, name,) + options)
_tkinter.TclError: couldn't recognize data in image file "background.png"
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img = ImageTk.PhotoImage(Image.open(background))
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