Shapely OSError: Could not find lib c or load any of its variants []

Question

I\'m just trying to use the demo code. I run the following in Jupyter Notebook:

from shapely.geometry import shape

Which gives me the following:

Answer 1

@user2977865 and @anothernode are correct in their approach but it may not work for everyone. By default, shapely will look for libraries in the DYLD_PATH.

I had it set to DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib/:/usr/local/mysql/lib/

But these libraries are placed in /usr/lib.

So I had to modify it as follows:

export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/:/usr/local/mysql/lib/

Bonus note: Ensure that your environment variables have been set by restarting terminal and clearing cache of any IDEs you might be using.