OpenCV imread hanging when called from a web request

Question

This is probably one of the strangest errors that I have ever ran into when using OpenCV. There is a lot going on, so let me try to explain this to the best of my ability.

Answer 1

Wrong

imagePath = os.path.dirname(__file__) + "/1.jpg"

Right

from os.path import abspath, join, dirname

imagePath = abspath( join(dirname(__file__), "1.jpg") )