ImportError: No module named opencv after installing python-opencv

Question

I install opencv in python with running $ sudo apt-get install python-opencv and installed successfully. but when run this code

import opencv
import opencv.highgui
import time
import commands

def get_image():
    image = opencv.highgui.cvQueryFrame(camera)
    return opencv.adaptors.Ipl2PIL(image)

camera = opencv.highgui.cvCreateCameraCapture(-1)

while 1:
    image = get_image()
    image.thumbnail((32, 24, ))
    image = tuple(ord(i) for i in image.tostring())
    x = int((int((max(image) / 256.0) * 10) + 1) ** 0.5 / 3 * 10)
    cmd = ("sudo su -c 'echo " + str(x) +
        " > /sys/devices/virtual/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness'")
    status, output = commands.getstatusoutput(cmd)
    assert status is 0

Got follow error

$ python bright.py 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "bright.py", line 1, in <module>
    import opencv
ImportError: No module named opencv

Could you please help me?

Answer 1

You should be importing is cv2 not opencv, there is also no highgui. You might want to check out the docs

Answer 2

To install opencv for python you need the command
$ pip install opencv-python
To import it so as to use in applications the import to call the package is
import cv2