BUG: dll loading failure with qhull

[Code4SAFrankie]

Describe your issue.

Getting this error when importing seaborn

ImportError: DLL load failed while importing qhull: The specified module could not be found.

Reproducing Code Example

import seaborn as sns

Error message

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
File "C:\WPy64-3980\python-3.9.8.amd64\lib\site-packages\seaborn_init_.py", line 2, in
from .rcmod import * # noqa: F401,F403
File "C:\WPy64-3980\python-3.9.8.amd64\lib\site-packages\seaborn\rcmod.py", line 7, in
from . import palettes
File "C:\WPy64-3980\python-3.9.8.amd64\lib\site-packages\seaborn\palettes.py", line 9, in
from .utils import desaturate, get_color_cycle
File "C:\WPy64-3980\python-3.9.8.amd64\lib\site-packages\seaborn\utils.py", line 10, in
from scipy import stats
File "C:\WPy64-3980\python-3.9.8.amd64\lib\site-packages\scipy\stats_init_.py", line 441, in
from .stats import *
File "C:\WPy64-3980\python-3.9.8.amd64\lib\site-packages\scipy\stats\stats.py", line 37, in
from scipy.spatial.distance import cdist
File "C:\WPy64-3980\python-3.9.8.amd64\lib\site-packages\scipy\spatial_init_.py", line 98, in
from .qhull import *
ImportError: DLL load failed while importing qhull: The specified module could not be found.

SciPy/NumPy/Python version information

1.7.2 1.22.3 sys.version_info(major=3, minor=9, micro=8, releaselevel='final', serial=0)

[tupui]

Hi @Code4SAFrankie, thank you for reporting. Please add a meaningful title for your issue. (I edited it now as to have at least something. Feel free to change it).

How did you install SciPy in your environment?

[Code4SAFrankie]

Installed using the wheel at https://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#scipy

Installed via the WinPython GUI installer.

[tupui]

I am afraid that we do not support these wheels (this website is not maintained by SciPy, nor is this installation method). The only guarantee we provide is with wheels available on PyPi and conda-forge. Can you try these instead? In the meantime I will close this issue.

[Code4SAFrankie]

Installing recently released scipy and seaborn latest fixed it.

[tupui]

Glad to read 👍