I definitely have it working on Linux, too, but it might have been that I
also only tried it with PyCharm 2017.1.3 first. Before that, I did what
Greg suggested, starting pycharm from the activated environment.
Unfortunately I have no experience with Windows in this regard, too.
On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 9:57 AM, Pavel Polishchuk <pavel_polishc...@ukr.net>
wrote:
> I had some issues to run rdkit from Python console in PyCharm (4.5.5) on
> Linux. After recent installation of PyCharm 2017.1.3 it started to work.
> Maybe updating PyCharm will help on Win as well.
>
> Pavel.
>
>
>
> On 05/30/2017 10:10 PM, West, Richard wrote:
>
>> We're having trouble getting RDKit to work in a PyCharm project using an
>> Anaconda interpreter (Python 2.7), on Windows 8.1.
>> Has anyone had success with this and can guide us?
>> The trouble is we get an
>>
>> ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found.
>>
>> when trying to import rdkit (or rdBase).
>>
>> We have tried many variations of the following, but here is a basic
>> recipe of what does/doesn't work:
>> 1. Make a new conda environment (called 'eg1'), install rdkit ('conda
>> install -c rdkit rdkit')
>> 2. From a cmd.exe prompt, use this environment ('activate eg1') load
>> python ('python') and import rdkit ('import rdkit') it works fine.
>> 3. From PyCharm, create a Project Interpreter (pointing to
>> 'C:\Anaconda2\envs\eg1\python.exe'), and use this to run a script or
>> create a new Python Console in which you 'import rdkit', leading to the
>> "DLL load failed" message.
>> 4. We have tried manually adding a bunch of things to the "Interpreter
>> Paths" in PyCharm, but without success (perhaps we just didn't add the
>> right thing).
>>
>>
>> ----
>>
>> Update: just before I hit "send" on this request for help, we stumbled
>> across this posting of the same problem, and solution, from Christian
>> Ribeaud:
>> https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/community/
>> posts/115000244450-DLL-load-failed
>>
>> It seems that if we open cmd.exe, activate the environment, and then
>> launch PyCharm exe from there, it works.
>> I'm sharing this here because it took us a while to find the other post,
>> but also to ask: is there a "better" way?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Richard
>>
>>
>> --
>> Richard H. West, Ph.D.
>> Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering,
>> Northeastern University, 360 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115
>> http://northeastern.edu/comocheng Phone: 617-373-5163
>>
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