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AttributeError: module 'pyexiv2' has no attribute 'ImageMetadata' | Python 3.7

I've been trying to run the following code:

exif = pyexiv2.ImageMetadata(image_file)
exif.read()

on Python 3.7.0 and it yields an error AttributeError: module 'pyexiv2' has no attribute 'ImageMetadata'

I haven't used pyexiv2 before but the example illustrated here is similar to mine and I presume it works fine. I'm also not sure if pyexiv2 is fully supported for Python 3. Please Advise.

You can find the script I'm working with here

Solution

  • This module uses

    import pyexiv2

    but you have to install py3exiv2 instead of pyexiv2 - you can see it in first line of Tutorial

    But it uses some C/C++ code and it needs other modules in C/C++.

    On Linux I had to install

    apt install exiv2

apt install python3-dev

apt install libexiv2-dev

apt install libboost-python-dev

    and later

    pip install py3exiv2

    (not pyexiv2)

    See Dependences on page Developers

    On Linux I have installed compiler C/C++ - gcc - but you may have to install it on other systems.