Use Exiftool with Python

[dannata_california]

Hi everyone,
I am an amateur user of python and I am trying to create a script that allows me to take a video, read the metadata, copy one attribute in another cyclically.

I have not been able to properly install Exiftool to use it with VSCodium.
Specifically, when I type "Import exiftool" I get the following error: ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'exiftool'

I use Windows 10, I followed the steps described here https://exiftool.org/install.html for the stand-alone executable version.
Also from cmd I can correctly execute the exiftool command.

Could you please help me understand how I can use this powerful tool with python?

Thank you in advance

[StarGeek]

Exiftool, by itself, doesn't have a python module.

It looks like Import exiftool is used to load PyExiftool.  Do you have that installed and configured?  This link is to the newer fork, as the one Google shows first is a very older version

[dannata_california]

Exiftool, by itself, doesn't have a python module.

It looks like Import exiftool is used to load PyExiftool.  Do you have that installed and configured?  This link is to the newer fork, as the one Google shows first is a very older version

Yes, I have correctly installed pyexiltools but it still doesn't seem to work.

I better give up and try to make a script in powershell?

[StarGeek]

We can't really help much with an external library.  The fact that python is returning "ModuleNotFoundError" seems to indicate that the module isn't installed properly.  You might search search StackOverflow for some options, as there seems to be plenty of "ModuleNotFoundError" questions/answers.

I better give up and try to make a script in powershell?

It's up to you, but you need to know that Powershell works very poorly with exiftool. Commands that work pefectly well on CMD/Mac/Linux can fail with PS.  Recent Example.  Also, Powershell corrupts binary output, a common command with exiftool.

[dannata_california]

We can't really help much with an external library.  The fact that python is returning "ModuleNotFoundError" seems to indicate that the module isn't installed properly.  You might search search StackOverflow for some options, as there seems to be plenty of "ModuleNotFoundError" questions/answers.

I better give up and try to make a script in powershell?

It's up to you, but you need to know that Powershell works very poorly with exiftool. Commands that work pefectly well on CMD/Mac/Linux can fail with PS.  Recent Example.  Also, Powershell corrupts binary output, a common command with exiftool.

Thank you for your help, I will use CMD.