How do I display and close an image with Python?

Question

I would like to display an image with Python and close it after user enters the name of the image in terminal. I use PIL to display image, here is the code:

Answer 1

Might be an overkill, but for me the easiest and most robust solution was just to use matplotlib as it properly keeps track of the figures it creates, e.g. :

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import matplotlib.image as mpimg

imgplot = plt.imshow(mpimg.imread('animal.png'))
plt.ion()
plt.show()
animal_name = raw_input("What is the name?: ")
plt.close()