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

Question

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

Answer 1

This module uses

import pyexiv2

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

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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.