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occasional CI fails on Windows

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Quiet
Tech stack
julia, python
Domain
ci-cd, operating-systems

Research direction

Start with the linked GitHub Actions run and inspect the Windows job around the Python ImportError. Determine whether the failure originates in CondaPkg or PythonCall, and confirm the fix by reproducing or eliminating the intermittent Windows CI failure.

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Description

Failure can be seen on this run
https://github.com/JuliaGenAI/HuggingFaceDatasets.jl/actions/runs/12415932225/job/34663973543

It seems an upstream error with CondaPkg or PythonCall:

ERROR: LoadError: InitError: Python: ImportError: DLL load failed while importing lib: 
The specified procedure could not be found.
Dominant language
Julia
Stars
38
Forks
1
Avg merge
4h 1m
Merged PRs (30d)
16

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