title: OpenCV in Python: "ImportError: DLL load failed"
body: <p>So many questions already about this topic, but I didn't find any satisfying answer about the "DLL not found" traditional issue.</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>I'm using Python 3.5 installed via Anaconda 3;</li>
  <li>I have installed with pip the 'official' opencv_python-3.2.0.6-cp34-cp34m-win_amd64.whl (right from here <a href="https://pypi.python.org/pypi/opencv-python" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://pypi.python.org/pypi/opencv-python</a>);</li>
  <li>Windows version is 7 - 64 bits;</li>
  <li>I have uninstalled all the redistributable VC++ that were present on my machine and reinstalled its 2015 version - so the famous as well as mandatory DLL msvcp140.dll is present on my laptop;</li>
  <li>the cv2 module is present in the Lib/site-packages directory;</li>
  <li>it contains, among others, file 'cv2.cp35-win_amd64.pyd'.</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>Meanwhile, I still can't get access to cv2:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&gt;&gt;&gt; import cv2
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "&lt;pyshell#2&gt;", line 1, in &lt;module&gt;
      import cv2
    File "C:\Program Files\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\cv2\__init__.py", line 7, in &lt;module&gt;
      from . import cv2
  ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found.
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Modifying the name of the .pyd --> cv2.pyd does not solve the problem, nor does the installing via pip of the unofficial but great wheel version from Gohlke (<a href="http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#opencv" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#opencv</a>)</p>
  
  <p>Any idea about what is going on?</p>