[SciPy-User] ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found

Khary Richardson surfcast23 at gmail.com
Thu Feb 16 22:35:47 EST 2012


Hi Ralf,

I downloaded numpy and scipy from the source forge site linked through the
scipy site. I am not getting any other error messages. I am not at home at
the moment and am not sure if cephes.py exists or not. I am running xp sp3.
Thanks!
Khary
 On Feb 16, 2012 1:44 PM, "Ralf Gommers" <ralf.gommers at googlemail.com>
wrote:

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> On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 5:29 AM, Khary Richardson <surfcast23 at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> Hi I downloaded and ran the numpy-1.6.1-win32-superpack-python3.2.exe,
>> and I installed scipy-0.10.0.win32-py3.2 from the scipy sourceforge site.
>> When I try to run a code that uses scipy.special I get the following error
>>
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "C:\Documents and Settings\Khary\My Documents\PHYSICS\
>> Physics\Bessel.py", line 5, in <module>
>>     from scipy.special import jv, jvp
>>   File "C:\Python32\lib\site-packages\scipy\special\__init__.py", line
>> 525, in <module>
>>     from ._cephes import *
>> ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found.
>>
>> any help woulb be great.
>>
>> Some more information would be helpful:
> - are you on XP, Vista, Win7?
> - how did you install Python (which binary)?
> - does the file "C:\Python32\lib\site-packages\scipy\special\_cephes.pyd"
> exist?
> - can you import and use other scipy packages?
> - do you get any errors or failures for "import numpy; numpy.test('full')"?
>
> Ralf
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