ImportError: DLL load failed while importing _ssl: The specified module could not be found [duplicate]

Question

I don't have much experience in programming, so I get confused with one problem, namely I cannot import ssl. When I execute my project in jupyter notebook - it works fine. But as soon as I move to the Visual Studio Code, import ssl yields

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "c:\Users\...\Git\pytroch_geometric\pytorch_geometric\examples\link_pred.py", line 3, in <module>
    import ssl 
  File "C:\Users\...\anaconda3\lib\ssl.py", line 98, in <module>
    import _ssl             # if we can't import it, let the error propagate
ImportError: DLL load failed while importing _ssl: The specified module could not be found.

Could somebody explain to me the cause? I saw exactly the same problem here, but unfortunately I do know where to find the files they are talking about.

Thanks!

Answer 1

Add anaconda3\Library\bin to path in Environment Variables.