I am working on windows 10 with Python 3.6.0 (Anaconda3) and jupyter notebook. I have successfully installed and imported OpenCV-Python with the help of comments in this post. Now the problem is that If I am importing opencv (ijmport cv2) from the same command prompt where I installed the opencv, it is importing without any error. But if I am importing opencv from another command prompt, then it is giving me this error: ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found.
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Command Prompt1:
C:\Users\Prachi\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-
32\Anaconda3\Scripts>pip install opencv_python-3.2.0+contrib-cp36-cp36m-
win_amd64.whl
Processing C:\Users\Prachi\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-
32\Anaconda3\Scripts>pip install opencv_python-3.2.0+contrib-cp36-cp36m-
win_amd64.whl
Installing collected packages: opencv-python
Found existing installation: opencv-python-3.2.0.7
Uninstalling opencv-python-3.2.0.7:
Successfully uninstalled opencv-python-3.2.0.7
Successfully installed opencv-python-3.2.0+contrib
C:\Users\Prachi\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-
32\Anaconda3\Scripts>python
Python 3.2.0 |Anaconda4.3.1(64-bit)| (default, Dec 23 2016, 11:47:51) [MSC
v.1900 64-bit (AMD64)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>import cv2
>>>
Command Prompt2:
C:\Users\Prachi\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-
32\Anaconda3\Scripts>python
Python 3.2.0 |Anaconda4.3.1(64-bit)| (default, Dec 23 2016, 11:47:51) [MSC
v.1900 64-bit (AMD64)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>import cv2
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "C:\Users\Prachi\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\cv2\__init__.py", line 7,
in <module>
from . import cv2
ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found.
>>>
This is why, whenever I am opening new command prompt to start coding, I have to install opencv again and then use it. Hope this explaination helps in understanding the problem.