OSError: [WinError 126] The specified module could not be found

[chrisnmills]

Describe the bug Trying to follow the basic example, I execute import eeweather ranked_stations = eeweather.rank_stations(35, -95)

What results is this traceback and OSError: Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "C:\Users\chris.mills\Miniconda3\envs\openee\lib\site-packages\eeweather\ranking.py", line 231, in rank_stations site_climate_zones = get_lat_long_climate_zones(site_latitude, site_longitude) File "C:\Users\chris.mills\Miniconda3\envs\openee\lib\site-packages\eeweather\geo.py", line 120, in get_lat_long_climate_zones from shapely.geometry import Point File "C:\Users\chris.mills\Miniconda3\envs\openee\lib\site-packages\shapely\geometry\__init__.py", line 4, in <module> from .base import CAP_STYLE, JOIN_STYLE File "C:\Users\chris.mills\Miniconda3\envs\openee\lib\site-packages\shapely\geometry\base.py", line 18, in <module> from shapely.coords import CoordinateSequence File "C:\Users\chris.mills\Miniconda3\envs\openee\lib\site-packages\shapely\coords.py", line 8, in <module> from shapely.geos import lgeos File "C:\Users\chris.mills\Miniconda3\envs\openee\lib\site-packages\shapely\geos.py", line 145, in <module> _lgeos = CDLL(os.path.join(sys.prefix, 'Library', 'bin', 'geos_c.dll')) File "C:\Users\chris.mills\Miniconda3\envs\openee\lib\ctypes\__init__.py", line 348, in __init__ self._handle = _dlopen(self._name, mode) OSError: [WinError 126] The specified module could not be found

I get this in both the python interpreter and in jupyter lab, and on two different computers using the steps that follow.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. I have created a fresh conda environment with python=3.6 and then activated it.
2. Ran pip install eeweather.
3. Started the python interpreter or created a new notebook in jupyter lab.
4. import eeweather
5. ranked_stations = eeweather.rank_stations(35, -95)

Expected behavior As discussed in the documentation: https://eeweather.readthedocs.io/en/latest/basics.html

Screenshots If applicable, add screenshots to help explain your problem. Here's what's installed in my environment.

Desktop (please complete the following information):

• OS: Windows 10 (one computer has Pro edition, Version 1909, and the other has Home edition, Version 1903)

Additional context Is it simply that Windows isn't supported, so I'm better off using Linux?

[chrisnmills]

I just loaded up a Ubuntu VM in VirtualBox and followed the same steps there. This time I got the expected behavior rather than an error, so I guess I'm going to be working in Linux for the time being.

[hareesh-bidgely]

@philngo even I am also getting the same issue on my windows 10 machine in Jupyter notebook. python3.7.4

import eeweather ranked_stations = eeweather.rank_stations(35, -95)

error:

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OSError Traceback (most recent call last)

in 1 import eeweather ----> 2 ranked_stations = eeweather.rank_stations(35, -95) 3 ~\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\eeweather\ranking.py in rank_stations(site_latitude, site_longitude, site_state, site_elevation, match_iecc_climate_zone, match_iecc_moisture_regime, match_ba_climate_zone, match_ca_climate_zone, match_state, minimum_quality, minimum_tmy3_class, max_distance_meters, max_difference_elevation_meters, is_tmy3, is_cz2010) 229 candidates["difference_elevation_meters"] = difference_elevation_meters 230 --> 231 site_climate_zones = get_lat_long_climate_zones(site_latitude, site_longitude) 232 site_iecc_climate_zone = site_climate_zones["iecc_climate_zone"] 233 site_iecc_moisture_regime = site_climate_zones["iecc_moisture_regime"] ~\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\eeweather\geo.py in get_lat_long_climate_zones(latitude, longitude) 118 """ 119 try: --> 120 from shapely.geometry import Point 121 except ImportError: # pragma: no cover 122 raise ImportError("Finding climate zone of lat/long points requires shapely.") ~\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\shapely\geometry\__init__.py in 2 """ 3 ----> 4 from .base import CAP_STYLE, JOIN_STYLE 5 from .geo import box, shape, asShape, mapping 6 from .point import Point, asPoint ~\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\shapely\geometry\base.py in 17 18 from shapely.affinity import affine_transform ---> 19 from shapely.coords import CoordinateSequence 20 from shapely.errors import WKBReadingError, WKTReadingError 21 from shapely.geos import WKBWriter, WKTWriter ~\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\shapely\coords.py in 6 from ctypes import byref, c_double, c_uint 7 ----> 8 from shapely.geos import lgeos 9 from shapely.topology import Validating 10 ~\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\shapely\geos.py in 152 if os.getenv('CONDA_PREFIX', ''): 153 # conda package. --> 154 _lgeos = CDLL(os.path.join(sys.prefix, 'Library', 'bin', 'geos_c.dll')) 155 else: 156 try: ~\Anaconda3\lib\ctypes\__init__.py in __init__(self, name, mode, handle, use_errno, use_last_error) 362 363 if handle is None: --> 364 self._handle = _dlopen(self._name, mode) 365 else: 366 self._handle = handle OSError: [WinError 126] The specified module could not be found

[hareesh-bidgely]

but the same working fine in ubuntu