From 204d11d4da15879946c1120c43e6f75b2a338d5b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrew Murray <radarhere@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2025 22:29:24 +1000
Subject: [PATCH] Raise FileNotFoundError when opening an empty path

---
 Tests/test_image.py | 4 ++++
 src/PIL/Image.py    | 2 --
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Tests/test_image.py b/Tests/test_image.py
index 069083b19..6b8b6d42b 100644
--- a/Tests/test_image.py
+++ b/Tests/test_image.py
@@ -160,6 +160,10 @@ class TestImage:
         with pytest.raises(AttributeError):
             im.mode = "P"  # type: ignore[misc]
 
+    def test_empty_path(self) -> None:
+        with pytest.raises(FileNotFoundError):
+            Image.open("")
+
     def test_invalid_image(self) -> None:
         im = io.BytesIO(b"")
         with pytest.raises(UnidentifiedImageError):
diff --git a/src/PIL/Image.py b/src/PIL/Image.py
index 9fc1c7067..d209405c4 100644
--- a/src/PIL/Image.py
+++ b/src/PIL/Image.py
@@ -3510,8 +3510,6 @@ def open(
     filename: str | bytes = ""
     if is_path(fp):
         filename = os.fspath(fp)
-
-    if filename:
         fp = builtins.open(filename, "rb")
         exclusive_fp = True
     else: