# ModuleNotFoundError

**URL:** <https://forum.opencv.org/t/modulenotfounderror/7333>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [January 28, 2022, 9:01pm UTC](https://forum.opencv.org/t/modulenotfounderror/7333 "2022-01-28T21:01:40Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![General](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a4c791/32.png) [@General](https://forum.opencv.org/u/General)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2022, 9:01pm UTC](https://forum.opencv.org/t/modulenotfounderror/7333/1 "2022-01-28T21:01:40Z")

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Hi I have downloaded this and then uninstalled this to then reinstall it. However it is still not working. I keep getting this error message (below) even when I just try to import it.

import cv2 as cv

Error Message

Exception has occured:ModuleNotFoundError  
No module named cv2

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**Author:** ![berak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/85f322/32.png) [@berak](https://forum.opencv.org/u/berak)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2022, 9:30pm UTC](https://forum.opencv.org/t/modulenotfounderror/7333/2 "2022-01-28T21:30:07Z")

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~~reformat the hard drive~~

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**Author:** ![General](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a4c791/32.png) [@General](https://forum.opencv.org/u/General)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2022, 3:01am UTC](https://forum.opencv.org/t/modulenotfounderror/7333/3 "2022-01-29T03:01:34Z")

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Apologiese, could you clarify how I would do that. I am beginner at this stuff. And this is the first major issue ive had with python

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**Author:** ![berak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/85f322/32.png) [@berak](https://forum.opencv.org/u/berak)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2022, 8:26am UTC](https://forum.opencv.org/t/modulenotfounderror/7333/4 "2022-01-29T08:26:15Z")

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unfortunately, your report above is entirely useless.

start all over:

- uninstall everything opencv related
- run `pip install opencv-contrib-python`
- show logs / errors here (as TEXT, please …)