Keras: “RuntimeError: Failed to import pydot.” after installing graphviz and pydot

Question

I\'m using Anaconda Python 2.7 on windows 10

I was planning on doing Keras visualization so (whilst spyder was open) I opened the Anaconda command prompt and pip ins

Answer 1

If you are using an Anaconda environment, you'd better install pydotplus and graphviz via conda install.

conda install graphviz
conda install pydotplus

Note: You'd better update your Keras to the newest version (2.0.9+), it can automatically check and choose which one of pydotplus,pydot-ng,pydot to be used. pydot-ng has been unmaintained for a long time, and it only supports py3.4- and py2.7.