Could not find lib geos_c.dll or load any of its variants [] when trying to import uncertainty_toolbox (shapely issue)

[sgbaird]

After running:

pip install git+https://github.com/uncertainty-toolbox/uncertainty-toolbox

on Windows 10, VS Code, inside of conda environment, I get:

Could not find lib geos_c.dll or load any of its variants [].
  File "C:\Users\sterg\miniconda3\envs\vickers-hardness\Lib\site-packages\shapely\geos.py", line 54, in load_dll
    raise OSError(
  File "C:\Users\sterg\miniconda3\envs\vickers-hardness\Lib\site-packages\shapely\geos.py", line 178, in <module>
    _lgeos = load_dll("geos_c.dll")
  File "C:\Users\sterg\miniconda3\envs\vickers-hardness\Lib\site-packages\shapely\coords.py", line 10, in <module>
    from shapely.geos import lgeos
  File "C:\Users\sterg\miniconda3\envs\vickers-hardness\Lib\site-packages\shapely\geometry\base.py", line 20, in <module>
    from shapely.coords import CoordinateSequence
  File "C:\Users\sterg\miniconda3\envs\vickers-hardness\Lib\site-packages\shapely\geometry\__init__.py", line 4, in <module>
    from .base import CAP_STYLE, JOIN_STYLE
  File "C:\Users\sterg\miniconda3\envs\vickers-hardness\Lib\site-packages\uncertainty_toolbox\metrics_calibration.py", line 10, in <module>
    from shapely.geometry import Polygon, LineString
  File "C:\Users\sterg\miniconda3\envs\vickers-hardness\Lib\site-packages\uncertainty_toolbox\metrics.py", line 9, in <module>
    from uncertainty_toolbox.metrics_calibration import (
  File "C:\Users\sterg\miniconda3\envs\vickers-hardness\Lib\site-packages\uncertainty_toolbox\__init__.py", line 9, in <module>
    from .metrics import (
  File "C:\Users\sterg\Documents\GitHub\sparks-baird\VickersHardnessPrediction\hv_prediction.py", line 21, in <module>
    import uncertainty_toolbox as uct

By installing shapely from conda (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/56813083/oserror-could-not-find-geos-c-dll-or-load-any-of-its-variants),

conda install shapely

For some reason (not sure if this would be the same for everyone), I need to do an uninstall and reinstall it one more time:

conda uninstall shapely
conda install shapely

and it seems to work OK now.