“AttributeError: partially initialized module ‘cv2’ has no attribute ‘gapi_wip_gst_GStreamerPipeline’ (most likely due to a circular import)” – an error that you may encounter when importing from cv2. Below are some solutions that we have tried. And we believe they help fix this error effectively.

How does the error “AttributeError: partially initialized module ‘cv2’ has no attribute ‘gapi_wip_gst_GStreamerPipeline’ (most likely due to a circular import)” appear?

GStreamer is a framework that allows us to create multimedia applications. Some of the multimedia applications can be mentioned: Video and music player (media player), Streaming server, video editing application (Video editor), or an application that supports video chat being used. used a lot during Covid-19 (eg Google meet, Microsoft Team…) then GStreamer can also be used to create similar applications. The error “AttributeError: partially initialized module ‘cv2’ has no attribute ‘gapi_wip_gst_GStreamerPipeline’ (most likely due to a circular import)” occurs mainly due to your current OpenCV. OpenCV stands for Open source Computer Vision library which can be understood as an open source library for computers. It allows for improving CPU speed when performing real-time operations. It also provides a large amount of processing code for the process of computer vision or other machine learning.

The error message might look like this:

AttributeError: partially initialized module 'cv2' has

no attribute 'gapi_wip_gst_GStreamerPipeline'

(most likely due to a circular import)

What do we need to do to fix the “AttributeError: partially initialized module ‘cv2’ has no attribute ‘gapi_wip_gst_GStreamerPipeline’ (most likely due to a circular import)” error?

In general to fix the error you can choose one of two ways: upgrade or downgrade your OpenCV python. And now we will go into details of each solution.

Solution 1: Upgrade the OpenCV-python

To fix the error “AttributeError: partially initialized module ‘cv2’ has no attribute ‘gapi_wip_gst_GStreamerPipeline’ (most likely due to a circular import)”, the first way you can try is to upgrade OpenCV python to the latest version 4.6.0.66 by running the following command:

pip install -U opencv-python

Alternatively, you can use this command:

pip install opencv-python==4.6.0.66

The error should now be resolved. Good luck!

Solution 2: Downgrade the OpenCV-python

Besides, in addition to upgrading to version 4.6.0.66 (2022‑06‑08) you can also downgrade to a lower version such as 4.5.5.64 (2022‑03‑09) to fix errors “AttributeError: partially initialized module ‘cv2’ has no attribute ‘gapi_wip_gst_GStreamerPipeline’ (most likely due to a circular import)”, this is a bug-free version so you can try it, just run this command:

pip install opencv-python==4.5.5.64

Or you can even downgrade to version 4.5.4.60 with the following command:

pip uninstall opencv-python

In case the above command has problems, you can also replace it with this command:

pip3 install "opencv-python==4.5.4.60" --force-reinstall --user

Conclusion

Thank you for taking the time to read this article. We hope that the solutions that we mentioned above can help you in fixing the error “AttributeError: partially initialized module ‘cv2’ has no attribute ‘gapi_wip_gst_GStreamerPipeline’ (most likely due to a circular import)”. Don’t hesitate to let us know your thoughts, write them down in the comments section. Good luck!

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