ImportError: DLL load failed when importing Numpy installed in conda virtual environment

Question

In Windows, I created a Conda virtual environment with the command

conda create -n test python=2.7 pandas scipy matplotlib numpy 

Once it is created, I activated the virtual environment and went into a python interpreter. When trying to import numpy, I get the following error:

>>> import numpy Traceback (most recent call last):   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>   File "C:\Anaconda3\envs\test\lib\site-packages\numpy\__init__.py", line 180, in <module>     from . import add_newdocs   File "C:\Anaconda3\envs\test\lib\site-packages\numpy\add_newdocs.py", line 13, in <module>     from numpy.lib import add_newdoc   File "C:\Anaconda3\envs\test\lib\site-packages\numpy\lib\__init__.py", line 8,  in <module>     from .type_check import *   File "C:\Anaconda3\envs\test\lib\site-packages\numpy\lib\type_check.py", line 11, in <module>     import numpy.core.numeric as _nx   File "C:\Anaconda3\envs\test\lib\site-packages\numpy\core\__init__.py", line 14, in <module>     from . import multiarray ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found. 

Any ideas what is going on here? Thanks!

Answer 1

Uninstall and install numpy again.

pip uninstall numpy pip install numpy 

Then try import again, it should work. That is what I did