Unable to pass multiple images to OpenCv at once

I've been reading fairly obsessively for days now, but I'm only a few weeks into learning python and openCv and I'm at a total loss with this.

I have a class function that draws rectangles around a "needle" image found on a "haystack" image. The haystack is an application window I'm capturing in real-time.

class Search:    def __init__(self, needle_img_path, method=cv.TM_CCOEFF_NORMED):            # set the method used to load the image       self.method = method        # load the needle image      self.needle_img = cv.imread(needle_img_path, cv.IMREAD_UNCHANGED)        # Save the dimensions of the needle image      self.needle_w = self.needle_img.shape[1]      self.needle_h = self.needle_img.shape[0]  

This is how I'm passing a single image into the above function.

# the window to capture   wincap = WindowCapture('X')    # set the needle image  images = x.jpg    # perform the search   search = Search(images)  

When I try passing more images in directly images = ("x.jpg","y.jpg")

I get the error:

   self.needle_img = cv.imread(needle_img_path, cv.IMREAD_UNCHANGED)  TypeError: Can't convert object of type 'tuple' to 'str' for 'filename'  

And when I try storing the the images in an array images = [cv.imread(file) for file in glob.glob('localpath')]

I get the error:

    self.needle_img = cv.imread(needle_img_path, cv.IMREAD_UNCHANGED)  TypeError: Can't convert object of type 'list' to 'str' for 'filename'  

When I place print(images) below a single successfully loaded image images = x.jpg it returns avoidLv12.jpg so I think it's expecting a string and not an array but I'm not sure how to do that.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66522716/unable-to-pass-multiple-images-to-opencv-at-once March 08, 2021 at 07:49AM