opencv-python: ImportError: DLL load failed while importing cv2: The specified module could not be found.
Hi,
I installed opencv-contrib-python 4.7.0.72 using pip for python 3.11.4 on Windows 10 x86-64
But when I run I get this exceptiom DLL load failed while importing cv2: The specified module could not be found.
Expected behaviour
I expect the module to import and not trow an error.
Actual behaviour
This exception gets trown
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "C:\Python311\Lib\site-packages\cv2\__init__.py", line 181, in <module>
bootstrap()
File "C:\Python311\Lib\site-packages\cv2\__init__.py", line 153, in bootstrap
native_module = importlib.import_module("cv2")
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "C:\Python311\Lib\importlib\__init__.py", line 126, in import_module
return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
ImportError: DLL load failed while importing cv2: The specified module could not be found.
Steps to reproduce
- example code
import cv2
- operating system Windows 10, i7-12700H with Intel Iris Xe Graphics and a NVIDIA RTX A1000
- architecture (e.g. x86) x86-64
- opencv-python version opencv-contrib-python-4.7.0.72
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- State: open
- Created a year ago
- Comments: 17
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