How to get cv2 running on python3.6?

Question

I'm currently trying to get the cv2 library on python so I could play some videos using python. Whenever I try to install cv2 from pycharm I get this error:

Collecting cv2

  Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement cv2 (from versions: )
No matching distribution found for cv2

I looked around and read that I should install opencv-python using pip, and I did, but pycharm still does not recognise cv2.

Answer 1

It works for me here. I just downloaded PyCharm 2018.1, created a new project using Python 3.6 and virtualenv, then navigated to the project settings and installed opencv-python using the PyCharm package manager

I then had to restart the python console in PyCharm and I could successfully import cv2 .