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

The below works inside a jupyter notebook runing in a jupyter/tensorflow-notebook docker container.

!conda install -y graphviz pydotplus

import pydotplus
import keras.utils
keras.utils.vis_utils.pydot = pydotplus
keras.utils.plot_model(your_model_name, to_file='model.png', show_shapes=True)

You need to tell keras to use pydotplus