How can I solve “process finished with exit code 139 (interrupted by signal 11: SIGSEGV)” in opencv - cv2 ( Pycharm & macOS)?

Question

I am learning OpenCV but I meet some difficulties, cv2 import is fine but it got error with cv2.imshow

from cv2 import cv2

img = cv2.imread(\'image.         


        

Answer 1

I'm faced the same issue and found a link to the issue: https://github.com/opencv/opencv/issues/18079

For now I downgraded OpenCV from 4.4.40 to 4.3.0.36 and it worked for me.