installing pyimagesearch on python3

Question

I am working with python3 and Ubuntu 18.04 and trying to install a python package named "pyimagesearch". it is not possible to install using pip command or apt-get install. I Googled to see how to install it but all the hits showed this link:

https://www.pyimagesearch.com/2018/05/28/ubuntu-18-04-how-to-install-opencv/

I followed all the steps without any error. to test that as mentioned in this link, I did :

import cv2

and it worked. then I tried:

import pyimagesearch

but still I am getting this error:

>>> import pyimagesearch
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pyimagesearch'

Do you know how to install this package?

Answer 1

"pyimagesearch" is not any package that you can import. It's a folder in the source code (you need to download the source code from pyimageseach's tutorial page). That folder has a file.py which contains a well-defined class of your interest.

from pyimageseach.file import class

"import pyimagesearch" won't work.

Importing class from another file