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Reputation: 13

Cannot seem to get GDAL to import into anaconda?

I installed anaconda onto my system and tried numerous ways of installing GDAL each time on Spyder it gives me the same response: ImportError: No module named gdal

I wrote the program just as follows:

import gdal

Ran it then that error

Tried:

import osgeo import gdal

same issue.

So then I installed the Anaconda prompt. And it seemed to install anaconda when I typed in:

conda install -c conda-forge gdal

I went back to Spyder and got the same error.

Any ideas of why this is happening?

In the Anaconda prompt I wrote: gdalinfo --version And got back:

GDAL 2.2.4, released 2018/03/19

All seems up to date except when I run in Spyder

Upvotes: 1

Views: 5640

Answers (2)

Diana Fuentes
Diana Fuentes

Reputation: 1

For me, it worked out by changing settings in the spyder interface:

Tools → Preferences → Python interpreter: C:/ProgramData/Anaconda2/envs/gdal/python.exe

After that change, spyder asked to run conda install ipykernel cloudpickle in the current environment. I did it and it worked. Another solution might be adding the same path (also in the spyder interface): Tools → PYTHONPATH manager.

Upvotes: 0

Julián Esteban Salomón Torres
Julián Esteban Salomón Torres

Reputation: 278

It can be related to the environment variables used by Spyder, so you can try to execute spyder from the command line or compare and add the missing paths in Spyder.

  • To execute from command line:

    spyder

  • To see missing paths:

    Enter to a Python command line and run this:

    import sys
sys.path

    Then in Spyder under menu Tools > PYTHONPATH manager option add the path

Note: You should import gdal like this from osgeo import gdal, import gdal is deprecated

Hope it helps!

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Upvotes: 3

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