I am working on a project that requires OpenCV and I am doing it in PyCharm on a Mac. I have managed to successfully install OpenCV using Homebrew, and I am able to import cv2 when I run Python (version 2.7.6) in Terminal and I get no errors. The issue arises when I try importing it in PyCharm. I get a red underline with: no module named cv2 I assume that PyCharm is unable to locate my cv2.so file but I have the latest PyCharm version (4.0.6) and none of the forums I've looked at are helpful for this version. How do I get PyCharm to recognise my cv2 file? I went in Project Interpreter but there is no option for importing OpenCV from my own machine. Furthermore in Edit Configurations I defined an environment variable PYTHONPATH and set it to /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages:$PYTHONPATH but this didn't help either. Any ideas? EDIT: I set up a virtualenv to no avail and figured out how to add a path to the current framework on the new PyCharm version and it turns out the path to cv2.so has already been given yet it is still complaining. Continue reading...
