How do I run an installed Python module on Windows?

Question

I am working with a Point Grey camera (Grasshopper3) and I analyse the images using OpenCV in Python. Point Grey cameras come with an API in C named flycapture. I found python bindings for the flycapture v2 api on GitHub ( pyflycapture2 ) and they provide installation instructions for Unix systems, but since I'm on Windows, I cannot use the awesome apt-get command.

Here is the instructions provided:

mkdir ~/git
cd ~/git
git clone https://github.com/peterpolidoro/pyflycapture2.git
sudo apt-get install python-pip python-virtualenv -y
mkdir ~/virtualenvs/
virtualenv ~/virtualenvs/flycapture2
source ~/virtualenvs/flycapture2/bin/activate
pip install cython
pip install numpy
cd ~/git/pyflycapture2/
python setup.py install

I don't need to install Cython and NumPy since they are included in my Python distribution (Anaconda)

I tried running only python setup.py install but then I get ImportError: No module named flycapture2 if I test the installation with the code provided in the repository.

Any help would be really appreciated!

Answer 1

Thanks to Busturdust who pointed out that the issue had already been covered here : https://github.com/jordens/pyflycapture2/issues/8

In summary, new Point Grey cameras don't use the same frame rate format convention then the one used in the module.

Answer 2

You should try importing the newly installed module from outside the source directory, and not from where you installed it with python setup.py install . So run your command from your home directory for example.

Answer 3

If you are running python 3.4, I believe pip should be with the distribution, but I am not sure about anaconda. Try invoking it as python -m pip install [module]

edit: comment appears to have helped solve the issue, adding it to the answer:

"If you have all the dependencies installed, just download the distribution as a zip cleanly, unzip the folder to a temproary location cd to that location and run python setup.py install "