Azure-ML>>ImportError: DLL load failed while importing win32file: The specified procedure could not be found.

Anonymous

I have been using the Azure ML python SDK and it has been working fine until I started getting this error:
"ImportError: DLL load failed while importing win32file: The specified procedure could not be found." when I tried to access my workspace

I am using a conda virtual environment with Python 3.9 and I was running all my codes in a jupyter notebook on a windows computer.

It's been many hours now and I cannot find a solution. Can you help?

romungi-MSFT 42,116 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2022-03-25T13:11:34.45+00:00

@Anonymous Is there any other module or library name listed in the error message where the import of this module failed when the procedure is called? Have you tried to uninstall and install this module or the SDK or restart the kernel and check if it helps?
Anonymous

2022-03-28T02:26:25.397+00:00

I can't see any The thing is it was working fine (connection, creating a resource, workspace, etc.) and I didn't install any additional library afterward. I came back to resume my experiment and got welcomed by those errors.
I have attached all the details about the error. 187276-error.pdf
romungi-MSFT 42,116 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2022-03-28T05:36:20.623+00:00
@Anonymous It looks like a localized issue while trying to call the interactive authentication method from the SDK where some of the core modules of windows are failing to import. Could you please try to restart your notebook service and load the notebook again and authenticate with your Azure workspace? I think with the current state of your setup even a call to print the SDK version would fail.

import azureml.core print(azureml.core.VERSION)
Piotr Makal 6 Reputation points

2022-03-29T18:39:27.65+00:00
I have very similar issue: local PC with Anaconda environment where I additionally installed Azure ML SDK.
Running just:

import azureml.core print(azureml.core.VERSION)

works fine, but when I add to such file:

workspace = azureml.core.Workspace.from_config()

It will throw similar error:
https://pastebin.com/QzaNB7KA

Interestingly enough when I installed this SDK on my "regular" Python 3.6.8 environment (not Anaconda one) it seems to work fine, although there I don't have any ML-related libraries installed like PyTorch, Pandas, etc. so it could be nice to make it work with Anaconda as well...
Matt Eland 76 Reputation points MVP

2022-06-17T02:35:46.33+00:00

This is definitely still an issue and Anaconda Individual Edition is definitely an environment that should be supported for data science workflows on Azure.

1 answer

Michael Harrison 6 Reputation points

2022-03-31T12:51:13.093+00:00
I had the same issue, but the fix here seems to have solved it.

Specifically:

conda install pywin32
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Norman Villaroman 6 Reputation points

2022-05-18T09:37:58.04+00:00

I have the same issue (when using azureml.core.authentication.ServicePrincipalAuthentication) but the fix/es referred to in this answer did not work for me while using Python 3.9. After I switched to an environment that uses Python 3.7, it worked. Specifically, I installed pywin32 and ran pywin32-postinstall.
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