title: Python 3.7 anaconda environment - import _ssl DLL load fail error
body: <p>I created anaconda environment with Python=3.7 and have trouble with the error of _ssl and DLL. When I tried to get back to my base environment, I have trouble getting the background processes to complete as shown in the figure below, this goes on forever.</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/pkjyT.png" rel="noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/pkjyT.png" alt="pycharm_0"></a></p>
  
  <p>The error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>C:\Users\abhil\AppData\Local\Continuum\anaconda3\envs\HeisenbergPy37\python.exe "C:\Program Files\JetBrains\PyCharm Community Edition 2018.1.1\helpers\pydev\pydevconsole.py" --mode=client --port=63950
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "C:\Program Files\JetBrains\PyCharm Community Edition 2018.1.1\helpers\pydev\pydevconsole.py", line 5, in &lt;module&gt;
      from _pydev_comm.rpc import make_rpc_client, start_rpc_server, start_rpc_server_and_make_client
    File "C:\Program Files\JetBrains\PyCharm Community Edition 2018.1.1\helpers\pydev\_pydev_comm\rpc.py", line 4, in &lt;module&gt;
      from _pydev_comm.server import TSingleThreadedServer
    File "C:\Program Files\JetBrains\PyCharm Community Edition 2018.1.1\helpers\pydev\_pydev_comm\server.py", line 4, in &lt;module&gt;
      from _shaded_thriftpy.server import TServer
    File "C:\Program Files\JetBrains\PyCharm Community Edition 2018.1.1\helpers\third_party\thriftpy\_shaded_thriftpy\server.py", line 9, in &lt;module&gt;
      from _shaded_thriftpy.transport import (
    File "C:\Program Files\JetBrains\PyCharm Community Edition 2018.1.1\helpers\third_party\thriftpy\_shaded_thriftpy\transport\__init__.py", line 57, in &lt;module&gt;
      from .sslsocket import TSSLSocket, TSSLServerSocket  # noqa
    File "C:\Program Files\JetBrains\PyCharm Community Edition 2018.1.1\helpers\third_party\thriftpy\_shaded_thriftpy\transport\sslsocket.py", line 7, in &lt;module&gt;
      import ssl
    File "C:\Users\abhil\AppData\Local\Continuum\anaconda3\envs\HeisenbergPy37\lib\ssl.py", line 98, in &lt;module&gt;
      import _ssl             # if we can't import it, let the error propagate
  ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found.
  Process finished with exit code 1
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>All packages installed with </p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>conda create -n  anaconda python=3.7</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <pre><code>C:\WINDOWS\system32&gt;conda list
  # packages in environment at C:\Users\abhil\AppData\Local\Continuum\anaconda3\envs\HeisenbergPy37:
  #
  # Name                    Version                   Build  Channel
  alabaster                 0.7.12                   py37_0
  anaconda                  2018.12                  py37_0
  anaconda-client           1.7.2                    py37_0
  anaconda-project          0.8.2                    py37_0
  asn1crypto                0.24.0                   py37_0
  astroid                   2.1.0                    py37_0
  astropy                   3.1              py37he774522_0
  atomicwrites              1.2.1                    py37_0
  attrs                     18.2.0           py37h28b3542_0
  babel                     2.6.0                    py37_0
  backcall                  0.1.0                    py37_0
  backports                 1.0                      py37_1
  backports.os              0.1.1                    py37_0
  backports.shutil_get_terminal_size 1.0.0                    py37_2
  beautifulsoup4            4.6.3                    py37_0
  bitarray                  0.8.3            py37hfa6e2cd_0
  bkcharts                  0.2                      py37_0
  blas                      1.0                         mkl
  blaze                     0.11.3                   py37_0
  bleach                    3.0.2                    py37_0
  blosc                     1.14.4               he51fdeb_0
  bokeh                     1.0.2                    py37_0
  boto                      2.49.0                   py37_0
  bottleneck                1.2.1            py37h452e1ab_1
  bzip2                     1.0.6                hfa6e2cd_5
  ca-certificates           2018.03.07                    0
  certifi                   2018.11.29               py37_0
  cffi                      1.11.5           py37h74b6da3_1
  chardet                   3.0.4                    py37_1
  click                     7.0                      py37_0
  cloudpickle               0.6.1                    py37_0
  clyent                    1.2.2                    py37_1
  colorama                  0.4.1                    py37_0
  comtypes                  1.1.7                    py37_0
  console_shortcut          0.1.1                         3
  contextlib2               0.5.5                    py37_0
  cryptography              2.4.2            py37h7a1dbc1_0
  curl                      7.63.0            h2a8f88b_1000
  cycler                    0.10.0                   py37_0
  cython                    0.29.2           py37ha925a31_0
  cytoolz                   0.9.0.1          py37hfa6e2cd_1
  dask                      1.0.0                    py37_0
  dask-core                 1.0.0                    py37_0
  datashape                 0.5.4                    py37_1
  decorator                 4.3.0                    py37_0
  defusedxml                0.5.0                    py37_1
  distributed               1.25.1                   py37_0
  docutils                  0.14                     py37_0
  entrypoints               0.2.3                    py37_2
  et_xmlfile                1.0.1                    py37_0
  fastcache                 1.0.2            py37hfa6e2cd_2
  filelock                  3.0.10                   py37_0
  flask                     1.0.2                    py37_1
  flask-cors                3.0.7                    py37_0
  freetype                  2.9.1                ha9979f8_1
  get_terminal_size         1.0.0                h38e98db_0
  gevent                    1.3.7            py37he774522_1
  glob2                     0.6                      py37_1
  greenlet                  0.4.15           py37hfa6e2cd_0
  h5py                      2.8.0            py37h3bdd7fb_2
  hdf5                      1.10.2               hac2f561_1
  heapdict                  1.0.0                    py37_2
  html5lib                  1.0.1                    py37_0
  icc_rt                    2019.0.0             h0cc432a_1
  icu                       58.2                 ha66f8fd_1
  idna                      2.8                      py37_0
  imageio                   2.4.1                    py37_0
  imagesize                 1.1.0                    py37_0
  importlib_metadata        0.6                      py37_0
  intel-openmp              2019.1                      144
  ipykernel                 5.1.0            py37h39e3cac_0
  ipython                   7.2.0            py37h39e3cac_0
  ipython_genutils          0.2.0                    py37_0
  ipywidgets                7.4.2                    py37_0
  isort                     4.3.4                    py37_0
  itsdangerous              1.1.0                    py37_0
  jdcal                     1.4                      py37_0
  jedi                      0.13.2                   py37_0
  jinja2                    2.10                     py37_0
  jpeg                      9b                   hb83a4c4_2
  jsonschema                2.6.0                    py37_0
  jupyter                   1.0.0                    py37_7
  jupyter_client            5.2.4                    py37_0
  jupyter_console           6.0.0                    py37_0
  jupyter_core              4.4.0                    py37_0
  jupyterlab                0.35.3                   py37_0
  jupyterlab_server         0.2.0                    py37_0
  keyring                   17.0.0                   py37_0
  kiwisolver                1.0.1            py37h6538335_0
  krb5                      1.16.1               hc04afaa_7
  lazy-object-proxy         1.3.1            py37hfa6e2cd_2
  libarchive                3.3.3                h0643e63_5
  libcurl                   7.63.0            h2a8f88b_1000
  libiconv                  1.15                 h1df5818_7
  libpng                    1.6.35               h2a8f88b_0
  libsodium                 1.0.16               h9d3ae62_0
  libssh2                   1.8.0                h7a1dbc1_4
  libtiff                   4.0.9                h36446d0_2
  libxml2                   2.9.8                hadb2253_1
  libxslt                   1.1.32               hf6f1972_0
  llvmlite                  0.26.0           py37ha925a31_0
  locket                    0.2.0                    py37_1
  lxml                      4.2.5            py37hef2cd61_0
  lz4-c                     1.8.1.2              h2fa13f4_0
  lzo                       2.10                 h6df0209_2
  m2w64-gcc-libgfortran     5.3.0                         6
  m2w64-gcc-libs            5.3.0                         7
  m2w64-gcc-libs-core       5.3.0                         7
  m2w64-gmp                 6.1.0                         2
  m2w64-libwinpthread-git   5.0.0.4634.697f757               2
  markupsafe                1.1.0            py37he774522_0
  matplotlib                3.0.2            py37hc8f65d3_0
  mccabe                    0.6.1                    py37_1
  menuinst                  1.4.14           py37hfa6e2cd_0
  mistune                   0.8.4            py37he774522_0
  mkl                       2019.1                      144
  mkl-service               1.1.2            py37hb782905_5
  mkl_fft                   1.0.6            py37h6288b17_0
  mkl_random                1.0.2            py37h343c172_0
  more-itertools            4.3.0                    py37_0
  mpmath                    1.1.0                    py37_0
  msgpack-python            0.5.6            py37he980bc4_1
  msys2-conda-epoch         20160418                      1
  multipledispatch          0.6.0                    py37_0
  nbconvert                 5.4.0                    py37_1
  nbformat                  4.4.0                    py37_0
  networkx                  2.2                      py37_1
  nltk                      3.4                      py37_1
  nose                      1.3.7                    py37_2
  notebook                  5.7.4                    py37_0
  numba                     0.41.0           py37hf9181ef_0
  numexpr                   2.6.8            py37hdce8814_0
  numpy                     1.15.4           py37h19fb1c0_0
  numpy-base                1.15.4           py37hc3f5095_0
  numpydoc                  0.8.0                    py37_0
  odo                       0.5.1                    py37_0
  olefile                   0.46                     py37_0
  openpyxl                  2.5.12                   py37_0
  openssl                   1.1.1a               he774522_0
  packaging                 18.0                     py37_0
  pandas                    0.23.4           py37h830ac7b_0
  pandoc                    1.19.2.1             hb2460c7_1
  pandocfilters             1.4.2                    py37_1
  parso                     0.3.1                    py37_0
  partd                     0.3.9                    py37_0
  path.py                   11.5.0                   py37_0
  pathlib2                  2.3.3                    py37_0
  patsy                     0.5.1                    py37_0
  pep8                      1.7.1                    py37_0
  pickleshare               0.7.5                    py37_0
  pillow                    5.3.0            py37hdc69c19_0
  pip                       18.1                     py37_0
  pkginfo                   1.4.2                    py37_1
  pluggy                    0.8.0                    py37_0
  ply                       3.11                     py37_0
  prometheus_client         0.5.0                    py37_0
  prompt_toolkit            2.0.7                    py37_0
  psutil                    5.4.8            py37he774522_0
  py                        1.7.0                    py37_0
  pycodestyle               2.4.0                    py37_0
  pycosat                   0.6.3            py37hfa6e2cd_0
  pycparser                 2.19                     py37_0
  pycrypto                  2.6.1            py37hfa6e2cd_9
  pycurl                    7.43.0.2         py37h7a1dbc1_0
  pyflakes                  2.0.0                    py37_0
  pygments                  2.3.1                    py37_0
  pylint                    2.2.2                    py37_0
  pyodbc                    4.0.25           py37ha925a31_0
  pyopenssl                 18.0.0                   py37_0
  pyparsing                 2.3.0                    py37_0
  pyqt                      5.9.2            py37h6538335_2
  pysocks                   1.6.8                    py37_0
  pytables                  3.4.4            py37he6f6034_0
  pytest                    4.0.2                    py37_0
  pytest-arraydiff          0.3              py37h39e3cac_0
  pytest-astropy            0.5.0                    py37_0
  pytest-doctestplus        0.2.0                    py37_0
  pytest-openfiles          0.3.1                    py37_0
  pytest-remotedata         0.3.1                    py37_0
  python                    3.7.1                h8c8aaf0_6
  python-dateutil           2.7.5                    py37_0
  python-libarchive-c       2.8                      py37_6
  pytz                      2018.7                   py37_0
  pywavelets                1.0.1            py37h8c2d366_0
  pywin32                   223              py37hfa6e2cd_1
  pywinpty                  0.5.5                 py37_1000
  pyyaml                    3.13             py37hfa6e2cd_0
  pyzmq                     17.1.2           py37hfa6e2cd_0
  qt                        5.9.7            vc14h73c81de_0
  qtawesome                 0.5.3                    py37_0
  qtconsole                 4.4.3                    py37_0
  qtpy                      1.5.2                    py37_0
  requests                  2.21.0                   py37_0
  rope                      0.11.0                   py37_0
  ruamel_yaml               0.15.46          py37hfa6e2cd_0
  scikit-image              0.14.1           py37ha925a31_0
  scikit-learn              0.20.1           py37h343c172_0
  scipy                     1.1.0            py37h29ff71c_2
  seaborn                   0.9.0                    py37_0
  send2trash                1.5.0                    py37_0
  setuptools                40.6.3                   py37_0
  simplegeneric             0.8.1                    py37_2
  singledispatch            3.4.0.3                  py37_0
  sip                       4.19.8           py37h6538335_0
  six                       1.12.0                   py37_0
  snappy                    1.1.7                h777316e_3
  snowballstemmer           1.2.1                    py37_0
  sortedcollections         1.0.1                    py37_0
  sortedcontainers          2.1.0                    py37_0
  sphinx                    1.8.2                    py37_0
  sphinxcontrib             1.0                      py37_1
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  spyder-kernels            0.3.0                    py37_0
  sqlalchemy                1.2.15           py37he774522_0
  sqlite                    3.26.0               he774522_0
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  sympy                     1.3                      py37_0
  tblib                     1.3.2                    py37_0
  terminado                 0.8.1                    py37_1
  testpath                  0.4.2                    py37_0
  tk                        8.6.8                hfa6e2cd_0
  toolz                     0.9.0                    py37_0
  tornado                   5.1.1            py37hfa6e2cd_0
  tqdm                      4.28.1           py37h28b3542_0
  traitlets                 4.3.2                    py37_0
  unicodecsv                0.14.1                   py37_0
  urllib3                   1.24.1                   py37_0
  vc                        14.1                 h0510ff6_4
  vs2015_runtime            14.15.26706          h3a45250_0
  wcwidth                   0.1.7                    py37_0
  webencodings              0.5.1                    py37_1
  werkzeug                  0.14.1                   py37_0
  wheel                     0.32.3                   py37_0
  widgetsnbextension        3.4.2                    py37_0
  win_inet_pton             1.0.1                    py37_1
  win_unicode_console       0.5                      py37_0
  wincertstore              0.2                      py37_0
  winpty                    0.4.3                         4
  wrapt                     1.10.11          py37hfa6e2cd_2
  xlrd                      1.2.0                    py37_0
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  xz                        5.2.4                h2fa13f4_4
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  </code></pre>