Question Regarding PIL and PhotoImage classes

[Fredrik Lundh]

Harlin Seritt wrote:

> Why is that I can only get the PhotoImage class to show up when I write
> a straight procedural script (no object orientation) but not when I try
> to use object-orientation?
> 
> These two scripts in theory should produce the same results but they
> don't. Is there any reason why?

in the second example, the "photo" variable is garbage-collected when the
method returns.

see the note on this page for more info:

    http://effbot.org/zone/tkinter-photoimage.htm

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