OpenCV Python not opening images with imread()

Question

I'm not entirely sure why this is happening but I am in the process of making a program and I am having tons of issues trying to get opencv to open images using imread. I keep getting errors saying that the image is 0px wide by 0px high. This isn't making much sense to me so I searched around on here and I'm not getting any answers from SO either.

I have taken about 20 pictures and they are all using the same device. Probably 8 of them actually open and work correctly, the rest don't. They aren't corrupted either because they open in other programs. I have triple checked the paths and they are using full paths.

Is anyone else having issues like this? All of my files are .jpgs and I am not seeing any problems on my end. Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong?

Here is a snippet of the code that I am using that is reproducing the error on my end.

imgloc = "F:\Kyle\Desktop\Coinjar\Test images\ten.png"
img = cv2.imread(imgloc)
cv2.imshow('img',img)

When I change the file I just adjust the name of the file itself the entire path doesn't change it just refuses to accept some of my images which are essentially the same ones.

I am getting this error from a later part of the code where I try to use img.shape

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "F:\Kyle\Desktop\Coinjar\CoinJar Test2.py", line 14, in <module>
    height, width, depth = img.shape
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'shape'

and I am getting this error when I try to show a window from the code snippet above.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "F:\Kyle\Desktop\Coinjar\CoinJar Test2.py", line 11, in <module>
    cv2.imshow('img',img)
error: ..\..\..\..\opencv\modules\highgui\src\window.cpp:261: error: (-215) size.width>0 && size.height>0 in function cv::imshow

Answer 1

Probably you have problem with special meaning of \ in text - like \t or \n

Use \\ in place of \

imgloc = "F:\\Kyle\\Desktop\\Coinjar\\Test images\\ten.png"

or use prefix r'' (and it will treat it as raw text without special codes)

imgloc = r"F:\Kyle\Desktop\Coinjar\Test images\ten.png"

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EDIT:

Some modules accept even / like in Linux path

imgloc = "F:/Kyle/Desktop/Coinjar/Test images/ten.png"