pytables ImportError: DLL load failed while importing utilsextension

Question

My code contains the line from tables import NaturalNameWarning which causes the following error:

from tables import NaturalNameWarning
Traceback (most recent call last):

  Input In [4] in <cell line: 1>
    from tables import NaturalNameWarning

  File ~\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python39\site-packages\tables\__init__.py:45 in <module>
    from .utilsextension import get_hdf5_version as _get_hdf5_version

ImportError: DLL load failed while importing utilsextension: The specified module could not be found.

If I run conda list pytables in the Anaconda Prompt (Anaconda3) it returns:

# packages in environment at C:\Users\JB\.conda\envs\gloria:
#
# Name                    Version                   Build  Channel
pytables                  3.7.0            py39h9d4cd68_0    anaconda

Does anyone know how I can resolve the error?

Answer 1

Apparently this issue is related to the version PyTables. I was able to resolve the issue by installing PyTables v3.6.1.

Source: https://github.com/scverse/scanpy/issues/2108#issuecomment-1013605391