Issue 1:
Hello,

I'm trying to run the CNTK tutorial notebook: CNTK_101_LogisticRegression.

I cannot import matplotlib.pyplot

(base) C:\CNTK-Samples-2-3-1\Tutorials>python
Python 3.6.3 |Anaconda custom (64-bit)| (default, Oct 15 2017, 03:27:45) [MSC v.1900 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import matplotlib
>>> import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "C:\Users\Charles\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\pyplot.py", line 32, in <module>
import matplotlib.colorbar
File "C:\Users\Charles\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\colorbar.py", line 36, in <module>
import matplotlib.contour as contour
File "C:\Users\Charles\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\contour.py", line 21, in <module>
import matplotlib.font_manager as font_manager
File "C:\Users\Charles\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\font_manager.py", line 58, in <module>
from matplotlib import afm, cbook, ft2font, rcParams, get_cachedir
ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified procedure could not be found.
>>> quit()

(base) C:\CNTK-Samples-2-3-1\Tutorials>conda install matplotlib
Solving environment: done

# All requested packages already installed.

(base) C:\CNTK-Samples-2-3-1\Tutorials>python
Python 3.6.3 |Anaconda custom (64-bit)| (default, Oct 15 2017, 03:27:45) [MSC v.1900 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "C:\Users\Charles\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\pyplot.py", line 32, in <module>
import matplotlib.colorbar
File "C:\Users\Charles\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\colorbar.py", line 36, in <module>
import matplotlib.contour as contour
File "C:\Users\Charles\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\contour.py", line 21, in <module>
import matplotlib.font_manager as font_manager
File "C:\Users\Charles\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\font_manager.py", line 58, in <module>
from matplotlib import afm, cbook, ft2font, rcParams, get_cachedir
ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified procedure could not be found.

>>> import matplotlib
>>> matplotlib.__file__
'C:\\Users\\Charles\\Anaconda3\\lib\\site-packages\\matplotlib\\__init__.py'
>>> print(matplotlib.__version__)
2.1.1

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Charles

Issue 2:
Bug report

Bug summary

Can't import matplotlib.pyplot

Code for reproduction

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

Actual outcome

# If applicable, paste the console output here
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
ImportError Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-1-f09a4c6b4388> in <module>()
1 import numpy as np
----> 2 import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
3 import scipy.ndimage.imread as imread
4
5 path = 'C:/data/cifar_10/train/15.png'

C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\pyplot.py in <module>()
30 from cycler import cycler
31 import matplotlib
---> 32 import matplotlib.colorbar
33 from matplotlib import style
34 from matplotlib import _pylab_helpers, interactive

C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\colorbar.py in <module>()
34 import matplotlib.collections as collections
35 import matplotlib.colors as colors
---> 36 import matplotlib.contour as contour
37 import matplotlib.cm as cm
38 import matplotlib.gridspec as gridspec

C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\contour.py in <module>()
19 import matplotlib.colors as colors
20 import matplotlib.collections as mcoll
---> 21 import matplotlib.font_manager as font_manager
22 import matplotlib.text as text
23 import matplotlib.cbook as cbook

C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\font_manager.py in <module>()
56
57 import matplotlib
---> 58 from matplotlib import afm, cbook, ft2font, rcParams, get_cachedir
59 from matplotlib.compat import subprocess
60 from matplotlib.fontconfig_pattern import (

ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified procedure could not be found.

Expected outcome

Matplotlib version

Operating system:

Matplotlib version:

Matplotlib backend (print(matplotlib.get_backend())):

Python version:

Jupyter version (if applicable):

Other libraries:

Everything was installed via anaconda.