Assertion failure : size.width>0 && size.height>0 in function imshow

Question

i am using opencv2 and python on raspberry pi. and i am new with python and opencv. i tried to read a jpeg image and display image it shows the following error:

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Answer 1

While reading the image file, specifying the color option should solve this, for example:

image=cv2.imread('img.jpg',cv2.IMREAD_COLOR)

adding the cv2.IMREAD_COLOR should solve this