I think the sys path is correct, cv.pyd and cv.pyd reside in c:\OpenCV2.3\build\Python\2.7\Lib\site-packages.
>>> import sys >>> sys.path ['', 'C:\\Python27\\Lib\\idlelib', 'C:\\Python27\\lib\\site-packages\\pil-1.1.7-py2.7-win32.egg', 'C:\\Python27\\lib\\site-packages\\cython-0.17-py2.7-win32.egg', 'C:\\Python27\\lib\\site-packages\\pip-1.2-py2.7.egg', 'c:\\OpenCV2.3\\build\\Python\\2.7\\Lib\\site-packages', 'C:\\Python27\\python27.zip', 'C:\\Python27\\DLLs', 'C:\\Python27\\lib', 'C:\\Python27\\lib\\plat-win', 'C:\\Python27\\lib\\lib-tk', 'C:\\Python27', 'C:\\Python27\\lib\\site-packages', 'C:\\Python27\\lib\\site-packages\\IPython\\extensions'] And import cv or cv2 seems to be ok but import cv2.cv not
>>> import cv >>> import cv2.cv as cv Traceback (most recent call last): File "<pyshell#4>", line 1, in <module> import cv2.cv as cv ImportError: No module named cv >>> import cv2 >>> cv.NamedWindow("camera", 1) ...
What could be the reason of the ImportError?