title: What does the following error mean: AttributeError: module 'importlib._bootstrap_external' has no attribute '_w_long'?
body: <p>Recently installed a github package through conda in windows that has created a new Python environment.</p>
  
  <p>Whenever I try to run Spyder in the new environment I get the following error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Error processing line 1 of C:\Users\cip18jjp\Anaconda3\envs\ox\lib\site-packages\matplotlib-3.2.1-py3.8-nspkg.pth:
  
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "C:\Users\cip18jjp\Anaconda3\\Lib\site.py", line 168, in addpackage
        exec(line)
      File "&lt;string&gt;", line 1, in &lt;module&gt;
      File "C:\Users\cip18jjp\Anaconda3\Lib\importlib\__init__.py", line 51, in &lt;module&gt;
        _w_long = _bootstrap_external._w_long
    AttributeError: module 'importlib._bootstrap_external' has no attribute '_w_long'
  
  Remainder of file ignored
  Python 3.8.2 | packaged by conda-forge | (default, Mar 23 2020, 17:32:17) [MSC v.1916 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32
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  </code></pre>
  
  <p>osmnx and the command as given on the github page: <code>conda config --prepend channels conda-forge conda create -n ox --strict-channel-priority osmnx</code></p>
  
  <p>Solved: Path variable in windows pointed to some different Python file locations. </p>