Trouble passing variable to show command.

[grand_larson]

Hello all. I need assistance parsing an XML file and passing the tags as variables to show different images. I am able to parse the tags in an XML file and store it in a variable. I want to then take that variable and show an image. In the example below, the xml has the tag background with the value Autumn_bg. I then store that in the variable background and try to pass that variable to the show command, but all I get is the default eileen background. I threw in the D "[background]" line just to confirm that the the variable is being stored properly. Any ideas how to pass a variable to show an image. I have tried a dozen different ways and its not working.

image Autumn_bg = im.Scale("Autumn_bg.jpg", 1920, 1080)
define D = Character("D")

label start:
python:
import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
tree = ET.parse(renpy.loader.transfn("xml/test.xml"))
background = tree.find('background')
background = background.text
if background == "Autumn_bg":
show background
D "[background]"

return

[Ocelot]

show expression background as background
https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/displayi ... expression

[grand_larson]

Ocelot you are a genius. You have no idea how long I racked my brain trying to figure this out. Thank you so much.