How to fix — ImportError: DLL load failed, when importing keras

I am trying to install keras with tensorflow backend

I have run pip install keras at first, and then pip install tensorflow both commands finished succesfully, now when i’m trying to import Sequential from keras.models I get error

Here is my code

I don’t know why error is in Russian, maybe it is because of my system language, but here is translation

Can someone help me to solve this issue?

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Approach 1

So, according to the information you provided, follow these steps :

1. Install Visual Studio C++ Redistributable 2015 Update 3.
2. Since your CPU does not support AVX, go to this repository. It contains TensorFlow builds supporting SSE, which is compatible with Intel Pentium.
3. Follow this path in the repo ->tensorflow-windows-wheel/1.12.0/py36/CPU/sse2
4. Download the .whl file ( or click here ).

Now, we need to install this file. Use,

pip install tensorflow-1.12.0-cp36-cp36m-win_amd64.whl

If it shows any error, try changing the relative path to an absolute one.

TensorFlow is installed successfully.

Approach 2

Install Anaconda. It uses a package manager named conda which is similar to pip .

Create a new Conda environment.

conda create —name mytfenv

Install TensorFlow ( version=1.10.0 )

conda install tensorflow

One of the methods would work for you. I personally followed both the approachs as my CPU specifications match yours.

Seaborn ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found

I am getting the «ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found.» when importing the module seaborn.

I tried uninstalling both seaborn and matplotlib, then reinstalling by using

but no luck. I still get the same error.

Is there a way to get around this error?

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What solved this for me was installing seaborn via conda:

And then restarting the kernel

I was having this issue until I uninstalled and reinstalled scipy with the pip command. Just got to your command line and type pip uninstall scipy and pip install scipy .

Hopefully that works for you as well. I also uninstalled/installed seaborn before this although I’m not sure if that was necessary.

Using conda rather than pip may also work.

The problem is because you are using windows. Scipy has problems with windows, if you check the sklearn site they say if you were unsuccessful for installing their packages by pip or conda you can install them with unofficial windows binary packages

so what you need to do is this, find your required package in This Link and download it

uninstall your previous installed packages :

install all you need from this link, i suggest you to install numpy , pandas, matplotlib, seaborn , . from this link

after you downloaded the required package, open your cmd, go to the folder that contains the .whl file

you can install them by the following command :

How to fix “ImportError: DLL load failed” while importing win32api

I’m setting up an autoclicker in Python 3.8 and I need win32api for GetAsyncKeyState but it always gives me this error:

I’m on Windows 10 Home 64x. I’ve already tried

and it successfully installs but nothing changes. I tried uninstalling and re-installing python as well. I also tried installing ‘django’ in the same way and it actually works when I import django , so i think it’s a win32api issue only.

I expect the output to be none, but the actual output is always that error ^^

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Run Scripts\pywin32_postinstall.py -install in an Admin command prompt

edit: User @JoyfulPanda gave a warning:

Running this script with admin rights will also copy pythoncom37.dll, pywintypes37.dll (corresponding to the pywin32 version), into C:\WINDOWS\system32 , which effectively overwrites the corresponding DLL versions from Anaconda already there. This later causes problem when openning (on Windows) «Start Menu > Anaconda3 (64-bit) > Anaconda Prompt (a_virtual_env_name)». At least Anaconda 2019.07 has pywin32 223 installed by default. Pywin32 224 may work, but 225-228 causes problem for Anaconda (2019.07)

For my case, install and reinstall pywin32 doesn’t help. After copied the two files from [installation directory of Anaconda]\Lib\site-packages\pywin32_system32 to C:\Windows\System32 , it works.

My environment is python 3.8 in miniconda. The two files are pythoncom38.dll and pywintypes38.dll .

Solved

If you are working in a miniconda on conda environment. You could just install pywin32 using conda instead of pip.

This solved my problem

conda install pywin32

For me, it worked by downgrading my pywin32 from version 227 to version 224. Just type the following command on any shell in administrator mode:

conda install pywin32 worked for me. I am using conda distribution and my virtual env is using Python 3.8

This happens when Lib\site-packages\pywin32_system32 is not in the list of directories to search for DLL (PATH environment variable).

pywin32 (or one of its dependencies) adds this path at runtime to the PATH variable. If this is failing, or another component is overriding the PATH after it’s been set by pywin32, you will get the given error (ImportError: DLL load failed while importing win32api).

You can try to extend the PATH variable in the shell before starting Python.

On Unix like systems:

If that doesn’t work, then the PATH maybe overridden within the Python program at runtime. Add the following line to your program just before pywin32 is used to verify its value:

As a last resort, you can extend the PATH variable before pywin32 is loaded:

Tensorflow on windows — ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found

I’m using Anaconda 3.1.0 on Windows 7 64 bit. I have installed tensorflow(GPU). I am getting errors while running following command.

>>> import tensorflow as tf

The complete traceback

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Installing Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable für Visual Studio 2019 resolved the described problem for me

Tested on Windows 10 for Python 3.6 (Anaconda) and Tensorflow 2.1.0

I faced the same error. The problem is not with the python or tensorflow versions but the dependencies required for it from the windows operating system. Just follow the following steps and you are good to go.

• Go to this link https://www.sts-tutorial.com/download/credistributable2019
• Download the vc_redist.x64.exe (64-Bit) or vc_redist.x86.exe (32-Bit), according to your system.
• Execute the file and restart your PC.
• Now import the tensorflow, it should work.

I used to get this kind of error.

The reason that I had installed the wrong and mismatched versions of Tensorflow backend and Keras

The versions I fixed that has worked perfectly for me can be seen as below

• Tensorflow 2.0.0 ( 2.1.0 throws the error)
• Keras version 2.3.1

In my case, Win10 could not find the module because the environment variable cuDNN was not set correctly!

You need to set the env var to the bin subfolder. In my case as I extracted it to C: , I had to add C:\cuda\bin to the path system varaible. For more infos, checkout this.

Or relate to this for checking the compatiblity of the versions.

cudnn lib version was wrong, so I replaced correct version of cudnn lib and it worked.

Tensorflow has few issues with python3.6. Try with python 3.5.2. pip install tensorflow Worked for me.

Install the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015, 2017, and 2019. Starting with the TensorFlow 2.1.0 version, the msvcp140_1.dll file is required from this package (which may not be provided from older redistributable packages). The redistributable comes with Visual Studio 2019 but can be installed separately:

• Go to the Microsoft Visual C++ downloads: Link: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/2977003/the-latest-supported-visual-?c-downloads
• Scroll down the page to the Visual Studio 2015, 2017 and 2019 section. ?- Download and install the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio >2015, 2017 and 2019 for your platform.
• Make sure long paths are enabled on Windows.

Install the 64-bit Python 3 release for Windows (select pip as an optional feature).

sdl2 — ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found and [CRITICAL] [App] Unable to get a Window, abort

Kivy Installation Method

Description

Hi, I am trying to run the example code from the install Kivy. The following is the error I receive back. Any help would be great. I have tried looking at previous enquiries about similar problems, but nothing suggested on them has worked so far.

Code and Logs

Code that I am trying to run:

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I had the same problem. I solved this by removing Kivy and its dependencies first.

Now reinstalling everything except gstreamer.

It solved the error. Credits to Ben R’s Answer.

I had the very same problem, and for me the solution was to make use of virtualenv instead of venv. This forces Kivy to use a specific installation of Python.

Download and install Python 3.7, since 3.8 doesn’t seem to be supported yet (https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-376/)

Install virtualenv if not already installed

pip install virtualenv

Create a virtual environment, specifying the path to the newly installed Python version

virtualenv —python=C:\path\to\Python37\python.exe my_venv

Activate the new virtual environment

Install kivy according to Javapocalypse’s answer