Why do I get the error "ImportError: No module named builtins" when trying to use PiVideo?

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mwlinder Staff asked 4 years ago

When running the PiVideo software it gives an error something like:
ImportError: No module named builtins with reference to line 24 in pivideo.py. In line 24 of pyvideo.py, the following “from builtins import chr” is found.

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mwlinder Staff answered 4 years ago

Starting with version 1.9 of PiVideo, support for both Python 2 and Python 3 was added. If you are using Python 2, the “futures” package is required, and can be installed using:
sudo pip install future
A future version of PiVideo will load this dependency automatically.