ImportError: Failed to import pydot. Please install pydot. For example with pip install pydot.

[lohitakshy]

from keras.utils import plot_model
plot_model(model)

Showing this error.
ImportError: Failed to import pydot. Please install pydot. For example with pip install pydot.

1. I installed --

(base) C:\Users\lohit>pip install pydot
Requirement already satisfied: pydot in c:\users\lohit\anaconda3\lib\site-packages (1.2.4)
Requirement already satisfied: pyparsing>=2.1.4 in c:\users\lohit\anaconda3\lib\site-packages (from pydot) (2.2.0)

(base) C:\Users\lohit>pip install pydotplus
Requirement already satisfied: pydotplus in c:\users\lohit\anaconda3\lib\site-packages (2.0.2)
Requirement already satisfied: pyparsing>=2.0.1 in c:\users\lohit\anaconda3\lib\site-packages (from pydotplus) (2.2.0)

(base) C:\Users\lohit>pip install pydot_ng
Requirement already satisfied: pydot_ng in c:\users\lohit\anaconda3\lib\site-packages (1.0.0)
Requirement already satisfied: pyparsing>=2.0.1 in c:\users\lohit\anaconda3\lib\site-packages (from pydot_ng) (2.2.0)

(base) C:\Users\lohit>pip install graphviz
Requirement already satisfied: graphviz in c:\users\lohit\anaconda3\lib\site-packages (0.9)

Still, it's showing an error? Kindly help me with this issues.

[dominikburger]

In addition to pydot and graphviz install pydotplus. This should solve your problem.

Edit: I overlooked that you already installed pydotplus, my bad. Try uninstalling all pydot related modules and graphiviz, then reinstall in the following order:

1. pydot
2. pydotplus
3. graphviz

For me, this has done the trick on both a Linux and Windows machine.

[XifengGuo]

@lohitakshy Please refer to #7

[sakshamjn]

i m having the same problem but the process of uninstalling and installing all the modules doesn't work for me plss help

[anouar1991]

Try this :)

import keras
import pydot as pyd
from IPython.display import SVG
from keras.utils.vis_utils import model_to_dot

keras.utils.vis_utils.pydot = pyd

#Visualize Model

def visualize_model(model):
  return SVG(model_to_dot(model).create(prog='dot', format='svg'))
#create your model
#then call the function on your model
visualize_model(model)

[Hippyu]

Just like @anouar1991 said.

What I did are followed:
import keras
import pydotplus
from keras.utils.vis_utils import model_to_dot
keras.utils.vis_utils.pydot = pydot
plot_model(autoencoder, to_file='model.png')

That's worked for me.

[Elliott-Ruebush]

In addition to pydot and graphviz install pydotplus. This should solve your problem.

Edit: I overlooked that you already installed pydotplus, my bad. Try uninstalling all pydot related modules and graphiviz, then reinstall in the following order:

1. pydot
2. pydotplus
3. graphviz

For me, this has done the trick on both a Linux and Windows machine.

I followed the advice of uninstalling and reinstalling pydot + pydotplus and that successfully solved the issue on my Windows 10 machine using Anaconda 3.
conda uninstall pydot
conda uninstall pydotplus
conda uninstall graphviz
then
conda install pydot
conda install pydotplus
Note: installing pydot also installed graphviz

[swun90]

In windows system, also install graphviz software. And add the software bin directory to the system's path.
And in class Dot(Graph), change self.prog = 'dot' to
self.prog = 'dot.exe'

Seems that the package was written for *nix system. So in windows, assign it to be an .exe file.

[Tarek98]

@swun90 This is what worked for me. Thank you :-)

[ghost]

On Ubuntu 16.04, I try with:
sudo apt-get install python-pydot
and it worked ok.

[bowalesamuel]

@Hippyu it worked for me too 😫

[DebottamBasu]

@ghost this works perfectly

[ZNHU]

My system is MAC, and I have the same problem.
Here's my solution:

import os
os.environ ['KMP_DUPLICATE_LIB_OK'] ='true'

[jmikedupont2]

without having to restart my notebook I did this

import keras.utils.vis_utils
from importlib import reload
reload(keras.utils.vis_utils)

[inspirepassion]

For those who wants to install pydot in their virtual environment on their Ubuntu machine, I did it by this:

1. activate your virtual env, e.g., in terminal: conda activate name_of_env
2. in termnial: python -m pip install pydot

you can check it out typing 'pip list' in terminal

[Shanmukh0028]

without having to restart my notebook I did this

import keras.utils.vis_utils
from importlib import reload
reload(keras.utils.vis_utils)

@jmikedupont2 thanks it worked after a struggle of 1 hr I found this worked for me