PyQt5 - Add image in background of MainWindow layout - python-3.x

Question

New to PyQt5... Here is a very basic question.
I would like to add an image inside the layout of a widget. This widget is the Main Window / root widget of my application. I use the following code, but I get an error message.
import sys
from PyQt5.QtGui import QImage
from PyQt5.QtWidgets import *
class MainWindow(QWidget):
def __init__(self):
super().__init__()
self.setGeometry(300,300,300,220)
self.setWindowTitle("Hello !")
oImage = QImage("backgound.png")
oLayout = QVBoxLayout()
oLayout.addWidget(oImage)
self.setLayout(oLayout)
self.show()
if __name__ == "__main__":
app = QApplication(sys.argv)
oMainwindow = MainWindow()
sys.exit(app.exec_())
TypeError: QBoxLayout.addWidget(QWidget, int stretch=0, Qt.Alignment alignment=0): argument 1 has unexpected type 'QImage'
Apparently a QLayoutWidget does not accept a QImage as an input. Is there a workaround to have an image appear as a brackground in a QWidget ?

Answer 1

The QVBoxLayout class lines up widgets vertically.
documentation QVBoxLayout
QImage is no widget.
on many widgets e.g. QmainWindow, QLabel you can use
widget.setStyleSheet(„ background-image: url(backgound.png);“)
on my machine this doesn't work with QWidget. In this case you can use the following rewrite of your code:
import sys
from PyQt5.QtCore import QSize
from PyQt5.QtGui import QImage, QPalette, QBrush
from PyQt5.QtWidgets import *
class MainWindow(QWidget):
def __init__(self):
QWidget.__init__(self)
self.setGeometry(100,100,300,200)
oImage = QImage("test.png")
sImage = oImage.scaled(QSize(300,200)) # resize Image to widgets size
palette = QPalette()
palette.setBrush(QPalette.Window, QBrush(sImage))
self.setPalette(palette)
self.label = QLabel('Test', self) # test, if it's really backgroundimage
self.label.setGeometry(50,50,200,50)
self.show()
if __name__ == "__main__":
app = QApplication(sys.argv)
oMainwindow = MainWindow()
sys.exit(app.exec_())