How to import cv2 in python3

Question

I m using Windows  and I m trying to install package cv2 for python3   I did a pip3 install opencv-python and it reports successful     But when I do the import cv2 from python3  it s not found and I get weird errors     What am I doing wrong

User · Accepted Answer

The best way is to create a virtual env  first and then do pip install   everything will work fine

User · Answer

Use     before the pip    pip install opencv-python

User · Answer

Make a virtual enviroment using python3   virtualenv env name --python  python3    and run the following command  pip3 install opencv-python

User · Answer

anaconda prompt -- gt pip install opencv-python

User · Answer

Your screenshot shows you doing a pip install from the python terminal which is wrong   Do that outside the python terminal   Also the package I believe you want is    pip install opencv-python   Since you re running on Windows  I might look at the official install manual  https   breakthrough github io Installing-OpenCV  opencv2 is ONLY compatible with Python3 if you do so by compiling the source code   See the section under opencv supported python versions  https   pypi org project opencv-python

User · Answer

well  there was 2 issues  1 instead of pip  pip3 should be used  2 its better to use virtual env  because i have had multiple python version installed

User · Answer

There is a problem with pylint  which I do not completely understood yet  You can just import OpenCV with  from cv2 import cv2

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