OpenGL and OpenCV with python 2.7 - part 006.

Today I deal with a simple example about how to use your webcam like a python module.
This will allow you to make your python module for your webcam.
My reason was to make a good webcam module to work with python modules like OpenCV and OpenGL and webcam devices.
The source code is simple and has just three functions: start, _update_frame and get_current_frame.
You can make more functions into this python module named webcam.

import cv2
from threading import Thread
  
class webcam:
  
    def __init__(self):
        self.video_capture = cv2.VideoCapture(0)
        self.current_frame = self.video_capture.read()[1]
          
    # create thread for capturing images
    def start(self):
        Thread(target=self._update_frame, args=()).start()
  
    def _update_frame(self):
        while(True):
            self.current_frame = self.video_capture.read()[1]
                  
    # get the current frame
    def get_current_frame(self):
        return self.current_frame

I make also a python script to test this python module:

from webcam import webcam
import cv2
 
dir(webcam)
cam = webcam()
cam.start()
 
while True:
     
    # get image from webcam
    image = cam.get_current_frame()