ipdb> AttributeError: "'builtin_function_or_method' object has no attribute 'fourcc'"

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• Reproduced the issue after updating with conda update spyder (or pip, if not using Anaconda)
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Problem Description

ipdb> AttributeError: “‘builtin_function_or_method’ object has no attribute ‘fourcc’”

What steps reproduce the problem?

1. cap = cv2.VideoCapture(0)
2. cap.set(cv2.CAP_PROP_FOURCC, cv2.VideoWriter.fourcc(‘Y’,‘1’,‘6’,’ '))
3. cap.set(cv2.CAP_PROP_CONVERT_RGB, 0)
4. cap.set(cv2.CAP_PROP_FORMAT, -1)

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

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Versions

• Spyder version: 3.2.8
• Python version: 2.7
• Qt version:
• PyQt version:
• Operating System name/version: WIN10

Dependencies

IPython >=4.0;<6.0: 5.7.0 (OK) cython >=0.21 : 0.28.2 (OK) jedi >=0.9.0 : 0.12.0 (OK) nbconvert >=4.0 : 5.3.1 (OK) numpy >=1.7 : 1.13.3 (OK) pandas >=0.13.1 : 0.23.0 (OK) pycodestyle >=2.3 : 2.4.0 (OK) pyflakes >=0.5.0 : 1.6.0 (OK) pygments >=2.0 : 2.2.0 (OK) pylint >=0.25 : 1.8.4 (OK) qtconsole >=4.2.0 : 4.3.1 (OK) rope >=0.9.4 : 0.10.7 (OK) sphinx >=0.6.6 : 1.7.4 (OK) sympy >=0.7.3 : 1.1.1 (OK)

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[Ash-S]

Hi @ccordoba12 Thanks for your prompt response. sorry, I couldn’t checked it on time. Thanks for your suggestions. I’d proceed with it and let you know the result. Thanks.

[Ash-S]

Hi @ccordoba12 yes, i tried to follow the instructions you suggested and replace ‘conda install’ by ‘conda install -c conda-forge’. Installed ‘opencv-python’ using the same but still showing the same ‘No module names cv2’.