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Pycharm: DLL load failed: The specified procedure could not be found

I am working on a Python project in Pycharm (2020.1.2) on Windows 10.
For this project, I cannot use the standard Python interpreter, I have to use my own located at C:\some\path\here\python\27_64\python.exe (Python 2.7.3).
Backstory may be important:
I have added this path to the system path for both myself and all users, and placed it ahead of %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\WindowsApps to try to prevent the Microsoft store from popping up whenever I try to run python on the command line - however I don't feel like this change to the path variable has made a difference, as the Microsoft store still pops up.
I can start a Python shell by running C:\some\path\here\python\27_64\python.exe, so I know it technically works. When I do so; the sys.path is as follows:
['', 'C:\\another_place\\Python_2.7.3_x64\\python27.zip',
'C:\\some\\path\\here\\python\\27_64\\DLLs',
'C:\\some\\path\\here\\python\\27_64\\lib',
'C:\\some\\path\\here\\python\\27_64\\lib\\plat-win',
'C:\\some\\path\\here\\python\\27_64\\lib\\lib-tk',
'C:\\some\\path\\here\\python\\27_64',
'C:\\some\\path\\here\\python\\27_64\\lib\\site-packages']
Anyway, when I try to run a Python console (not even my script), this is the message I get in Pycharm:
C:\some\path\here\python\27_64\python.exe "C:\Program Files\JetBrains\PyCharm 2020.1.1\plugins\python\helpers\pydev\pydevconsole.py" --mode=client --port=59771
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Program Files\JetBrains\PyCharm 2020.1.1\plugins\python\helpers\pydev\pydevconsole.py", line 5, in <module>
from _pydev_comm.pydev_rpc import make_rpc_client, start_rpc_server, start_rpc_server_and_make_client
File "C:\Program Files\JetBrains\PyCharm 2020.1.1\plugins\python\helpers\pydev\_pydev_comm\pydev_rpc.py", line 1, in <module>
import socket
File "C:\some\path\here\python\27_64\lib\socket.py", line 47, in <module>
import _socket
ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified procedure could not be found.
Process finished with exit code 1
I have gone to Settings>Project:[name]>Project Interpreter and set it to C:\some\path\here\python\27_64\python.exe (and rebooted Pycharm to be sure). That said; in the settings window no packages are shown and it claims that Python packaging tools can not be found.
When I click the link to install them (circled in red), they can not be installed due to this error:
ImportError: cannot import name _remove_dead_weakref
Are there other variables or settings I need to change?
Thanks
EDIT
Uninstalling the first Python on my Path (C:\\another_place\\Python_2.7.3_x64\\python27.zip) just makes everything so much worse
EDIT 2
I added the PATH variable manually to both the Python console settings and to the Run/Debug settings in PyCharm (and restarted the program), the result is still the same

I had a similar issue. This procedure fixed my issue.
Try the following:
run print(os.environ['PATH']) in the system terminal using the same interpreter
copy the result and add as PATH environment variable to your Run/Debug Configuration
do the same for Python Console settings
I hope it will work.

It seems that the interpreter is not being recognized by the windows as a result of which you are unable to install packages.
Also, I suppose the interpreter should be present in the bin folder of your python folder. The interpreter does not have a .exe extension.
I would suggest installing anaconda python 2.7 64 Bit windows package installer and using the condo environment and work on python 2.7
Here is a link I found for Python 2.7 on Windows hope this helps:
https://docs.python.org/2/faq/windows.html

Had the similar issue, in my case it was always trying to find libraries in PostgreSQL installation directory.
Mentioning sys.path helped me here! I tried printing it from inside my script and realized that PostgreSQL directories appear earlier in the list than Python directories.
SO, how I finally fixed it -- added PYTHONPATH environment variable to my Run configuration in PyCharm like this (replace with paths to your Python installation directory):
PYTHONPATH=D:\PROGRAMS\Python\Python3.9\DLLs\;D:\PROGRAMS\Python\Python3.9\lib\;D:\PROGRAMS\Python\Python3.9\;D:\PROGRAMS\Python\Python3.9\lib\site-packages
This helps to put desired directories at the beginning of the list, thus they are searched first and required libraries are found as it is supposed to work.

ImportError for every third party library

I know there are similar questions, but I've looked at them and none of them are what I'm looking for
I'm running Python 3.7.0 on Windows 10, and I installed pygame-1.9.4 a few weeks ago, and it's been working fine until yesterday.
I have a file called testing.py that just contains:
import pygame
when I run it via
C:\Users\Me>testing.py, it returns the following error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\Me\testing.py", line 1, in <module>
import pygame
ImportError: No module named pygame
But when I'm in the Python shell, I can import it just fine
This is the case for every third party library. I have tested Pillow, flask, and others. Importing from the standard library works fine
I have uninstalled and reinstalled python and pygame, I've updated pip, I've updated setuptools as one person suggested, but none of it works
I had been using Wing IDE personal 6, and I could also run it fine from there, but I didn't care for it. Please help!

I am guessing that there are multiple python versions on your system and the one associated with .py files is not the one that you are using in the other cases.
To debug, what you can do is:
Write in a .py file
import sys
print(sys.executable)
and also execute those lines from your python shell. That will print the path to the python interpreter that is executing said commands. The result will probably be different in your case.
What you can also do is check if
print(sys.path)
results in the same list using both methods, as it contains the folders being searched when importing

ImportError: No module named 'com.android'

I'm writing a simple test for Android app and it fails while trying to connect my device with this log:
Traceback (most recent call last): File "D:/MonkeyRunnerTest/test/LaunchTest.py", line 3, in <module>
from com.android.monkeyrunner import MonkeyRunner, MonkeyDevice ImportError: No module named 'com'
I use Pycharm 2.7.3, Python 3.3.2, juthon-standalone-2.5.3. I've tried to launch my test project on Eclipse with PyDev and Intellij Idea with Python plug-in, but with the same result. Also I've added environment variable PYTHONPATH containing the path to monkeyrunner and jython source to my operation system (Windows 7), it didn't help.
Any suggestions for this issue?

You should only use monkeyrunner interpreter to run monkeyrunner scripts. Forget about python, jython, etc.
From you command line try:
monkeyrunner LaunchTest.py
and it will work.
You can find some instructions to use monkeyrunner with Eclipse+Pydev. See the updates at the bottom of the page.

Assuming you have the proper modules installed: They aren't in your system path. You can check your system path manually to see if the directory is there by doing
import sys
print sys.path
You can append to sys.path as you would any list, but it's probably better to modify it via your OS, rather than on the fly appending. (which is temporary, sys.path reverts to its original state after the end of the script in python)

Weird issue with platypus (makes .app packages from scripts)

I wrote myself a small Python script that I want to use to automatically do things with certain types of files; as such, I want to create an .app out of it so that I can set certain files to be opened with it automatically.
So I looked around and found Platypus which seems to do what I need.
However, weirdly it doesn't work. Specifically, it does not seem to be finding the right python interpreter. I set it up as follows:
I.e., the script type is env so it should just read the top line of the file like the shell does.
In magic.py, the top line is #!/usr/bin/env python2.7.
Now, when I run the shell script on the command line (that is, ~/devel/magic.py whatever), everything works fine. But when I run the app, it errors with:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Users/jan/Dropbox/devel/Magic.app/Contents/Resources/script", line 8, in <module>
from bencode import *
ImportError: No module named bencode
The same import works just fine when running it from the command line, so I'm thinking it's using the wrong interpreter somehow. How can I fix or debug this?

You are trying to import from bencode module but you didn't add it in the application's bundled resources. Either drag it to the list of included files and export again or just copy it to the resources folder in the package's contents.

Sublime Text2 Import error: No module named Gnuplot

I'm trying to use Gnuplot in a Python script I'm writing in Sublime Text. Whenever I build, I get the error message
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "..." line 4, in <module>
import Gnuplot
ImportError: No module named Gnuplot
If I do the exact same code lines directly in Terminal, I have no problem importing and using Gnuplot.
The import error seems to be common, just with other modules. Usually the fix is related to PYTHONPATH. However, Gnuplot is on my computer located in
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages
and should thus be found.
Anybody who's got a fix to this one?

Sublime Text 2 comes with its own Python interpreter which sets PYTHONPATH independently from the system Python interpreter you are referring to.
Please see this question how to set a different PYTHONPATH for Sublime. Please note that if the library you are using was compiled against a different Python version than Sublime is using loading the native dynamically linked libraries will probably cause Sublime Text 2 to crash.
https://stackoverflow.com/a/9919953/315168