pyqt and requests: Load an image into GUI

Question

All my images are saved into a directory

pictures = '/x.com/user37/Public/....../images/'

I'm trying to load images from that directory onto my GUI screen. This is what I have in my __init__ method.

self.movieimg = QImage()
self.imagelbl = QLabel()
self.imagelbl.setAlignment(Qt.AlignCenter)
self.imagelbl.setPixmap(QPixmap.fromImage(self.movieimg))

When I include, after initializing a QGridLayout

layout.addWidget(self.movieimg, 1, 1)  

I get an error saying that argument 1 in addWidget is an invalid type. Why is this the case?

I created a dictionary entry = { } and I have another function where I call requests

def nextEntry(self)
    r= requests.get(self.MOVIES_URL + str(mid))
    resp = json.loads(r.content)
    img = resp['movie_id']

    self.movieimg = QImage(self.movie['img'])
    self.imglbl.setPixmap(QPixmap.fromImage(self.movieimg))

Thoughts? Do I need to directly call this function before that statement in the main __init__ function? Thank you!

Answer 1

self.movieimg is QImage() type and you need to pass QWidget type as first argument to addWidget method. QLabel() inherits from QWidget, so try to passing self.imagelbl instead.