Tkinter run python script from another folder with dependencies

Question

I am trying to get a Python gui app to execute a script in another folder.

The Python gui app uses Tkinter (commandGui.py in folder commandGui)

import tkinter
import os

fileDir = os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath('__file__'))
filename = os.path.join(fileDir, '/Users/simon/Documents/Projects/Python/relativeTest/scheduler.py')

window_main = tkinter.Tk(className='CommandGUI', )
window_main.geometry("400x200")

def submitFunction() :
    os.system('python ' +filename)

button_submit = tkinter.Button(window_main, text ="Weather over Delilah", command=submitFunction)
button_submit.config(width=20, height=2)

button_submit.pack()
window_main.mainloop()

Scheduler.py (in relativeTest folder) selects a random image and prints to the terminal

import sys
import glob, random
import os

os.path.dirname(__file__)

file_path_type = ["./images/*.jpg"]
images = glob.glob(random.choice(file_path_type))
random_image = random.choice(images)

print(random_image)

Inside relativeTest folder is a folder called images, which has an 3 images inside

When running commandGui.py and selecting the button, the script (scheduler.py in randomTest folder) should select an image from images folder, however getting this message...

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/simon/Documents/Projects/Python/relativeTest/scheduler.py", line 10, in <module>
    random_image = random.choice(images)
  File "/Users/simon/opt/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/random.py", line 290, in choice
    raise IndexError('Cannot choose from an empty sequence') from None
IndexError: Cannot choose from an empty sequence

Any help would be appreciated, thankyou

Tkinter run python script from another folder with dependencies

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