How to upload images to a telegram bot using python?

Question

Python

How to make my telegram bot automatically send my pre-loaded picture to a person using the /start command.
For example, the name of the picture is pic.jpg

Answer 1

howdy ho is his code

@bot.message_handler(commands=['start'])
def welcome(message):
    sti = open('путь до каталога/название.webp', 'rb')
    bot.send_sticker(message.chat.id, sti)
 
    bot.send_message(message.chat.id, "Добро пожаловать, {0.first_name}!\nЯ - <b>{1.first_name}</b>, бот созданный чтобы быть подопытным кроликом.".format(message.from_user, bot.get_me()),
        parse_mode='html')

Answer 2

I did this - I sent (himself) a picture to the bot, remembered its ID on the bot, and then sent it to the user. To this day it works.