Python cannot find a directory

I wrote a code like this with jupyter notebook in a project;

import os


image_path = r'C:\Users\ays\Desktop\IR\01.jpg'
image_files = os.listdir(image_path)
img = cv2.imread(os.path.join(image_path,image_files))
cv2.imshow('image',img)

it gives an error like;

[WinError 3] The system cannot find the path specified: ‘C:\Users\ays\Desktop\IR\01.jpg’

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i was trying to print an image and
i had a directory problem

>Solution :

The argument to os.listdir() must be the directory, not the image file, so remove \01.jpg.

Then you’ll need to loop over the result of os.listdir(), since it returns a list.

import os

image_path = r'C:\Users\ays\Desktop\IR'
image_files = os.listdir(image_path)
for file in image_files:
    img = cv2.imread(os.path.join(image_path,file))
    cv2.imshow('image',img)