NumPy library ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified procedure could not be found

Question

I'm learning python using Visual Studio 2017 on Windows 10. When I'm trying to import NumPy library into my code, this error appears. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling, looking for libiomp5md.dll per instruction in ImportError: DLL load failed when importing Numpy installed in conda virtual environment but to no prevail.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Program Files\Python36\lib\site-packages\numpy\core\__init__.py", line 16, in <module>
from . import multiarray
ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified procedure could not be found.

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\adm\documents\visual studio 2017\Projects\Web Scraping\Web Scraping\Web_Scraping.py", line 17, in <module>
import numpy
  File "C:\Program Files\Python36\lib\site-packages\numpy\__init__.py", line 142, in <module>
from . import add_newdocs
  File "C:\Program Files\Python36\lib\site-packages\numpy\add_newdocs.py", line 13, in <module>
from numpy.lib import add_newdoc
  File "C:\Program Files\Python36\lib\site-packages\numpy\lib\__init__.py", line 8, in <module>
from .type_check import *
  File "C:\Program Files\Python36\lib\site-packages\numpy\lib\type_check.py", line 11, in <module>
import numpy.core.numeric as _nx
  File "C:\Program Files\Python36\lib\site-packages\numpy\core\__init__.py", line 26, in <module>
raise ImportError(msg)
ImportError:
Importing the multiarray numpy extension module failed.  Most
likely you are trying to import a failed build of numpy. 
If you're working with a numpy git repo, try `git clean -xdf` (removes all 
files not under version control).  Otherwise reinstall numpy.

Original error was: DLL load failed: The specified procedure could not be found.

Answer 1

I encountered the same problem with VSCode, and I resolved it by adding the following path to the system environment. After that restart VSCode and everything is OK.

C:\Users\<Your user name>\Anaconda3\Library\bin

If the anaconda was not installed in the default directory, please find your own Anaconda3\Library\bin.