opencv-python VS Pipenv

Extra stuff like type checking and annotations are definitely not the reason why python became that popular and widely adapted and used, but it certainly doesn't hurt to add and use them.

To be clear, I'm not expecting people to start adding generics to their quick hacked together Python scripts (in fact please don't do that). Instead, if you're building a library or maintaining a larger Python codebase, a lot of these start becoming very useful. A lot of the typing features I mentioned are already used by Python under the hood, and that a lot of Python developers just take for granted.

Case in point, the python-opencv (https://github.com/opencv/opencv-python) library has basically no types and it's an absolute pain to work with.

BTW thats a really good SO thread, thanks for linking it!

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There are several modules that would allow you to process images in Python. Two of the perhaps most famous ones are PIL (https://pypi.org/project/Pillow/, also known as pillow), and opencv (https://pypi.org/project/opencv-python/).

Classifying images with trained model by using OpenCV and Teachable Machine packages

opencv-python: OpenCV for Python

Tool: Data collected using Python opencv, and a rudimentary OCR built from scratch. Graphic created with Microsoft Excel.

cv2: https://pypi.org/project/opencv-python/

I would try installing opencv-python on its own to see if you can learn more: https://pypi.org/project/opencv-python/

I've been googling and reading for a while but I'm very unsure about which tools I need, which tools will help me achieve what I want the easiest way. What about (pylivestream)[https://pypi.org/project/pylivestream/] for example? Will this do the job for me? What about a lower level approach including (pyopencv)[https://pypi.org/project/opencv-python/]? What about a higher level approach using (vidgear)[https://github.com/abhiTronix/vidgear], which seems promising but I don't feel confident in assessing if it's the tool I really need?

This is likely to be buggy and frustrating, and it's very likely that you'll need to use OpenCV to preprocess the screenshot. Not my idea of a good time!

Pipenv

https://github.com/pypa/pipenv

Pipenv was last updated 10 hours ago. Looks like it's still an active project to me.

pipenv solves this by having both kinds of requirement files: Pipfile lists package names and known constraints on which versions can be used, while Pipfile.lock gives specific package versions with hashes. Theoretically the Pipfile (and its lockfile) format were supposed to be a standard that many different tools could use, but I haven't seen it get adopted much outside of pipenv itself, so I'm not sure if it's really going to catch on.

* Tons of longstanding bugs that fail to be resolved in any sort of timely manner like this one: https://github.com/pypa/pipenv/issues/2413

I am sick and tired of the python packaging space pushing this godawful tool for Python. Please just use pip-tools or poetry instead.

ℹ️ You may use a different virtual environment manager like Pipenv or poetry.

Hey lua would you mind looking at this question for me? https://github.com/pypa/pipenv/discussions/5411