ValueError: Bytes length does not equal format and resolution size

So, I was creating some pygame program, and I wanted to embed a .png image with pygame.image.fromstring but I keep getting the error above. I have tried other things like frombytes and changing the size iterables but it won't work. The code I used to convert the image:

import base64

with open("my_image.png", "rb") as imageFile:
    bytes = base64.b64encode(imageFile.read())
    print(bytes)

And the image surface:

imageBytes = b'imagedata'
image = pygame.image.fromstring(imageBytes, (width,height), "RGBA")

After I converted my image of choice, I simply copied the output and pasted it in vs-code and it returns the error message. How can I fix this? Help is appreciated!

Using pygame.image.fromstring(imageBytes...) won't work because this function expects the string to be in a certain format.

To get a string that works with fromstring you have to load the image into a Surface and then use pygame.image.tostring (or the tobytes/frombytes counterparts).

You load your image and convert it into a base64 encoded string, so you could actually decode it back and load it with pygame.image.load, like this:

import io
image = pygame.image.load(io.BytesIO(base64.b64decode(imageBytes)))