Can't import Scipy in latest Spyder version (Anaconda)

Description of your problem

1. I updated the to the latest spyder version using conda update conda +conda update spyder During this process I got the following warning: INFO menuinst_win32:__init__(182): Menu: name: 'Anaconda${PY_VER} ${PLATFORM}', prefix: 'C:\Anaconda3', env_name: 'None', mode: 'None', used_mode: 'system'

2. Now any import that calls some sub-module of scipy doesnt work

from scipy import stats

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "<ipython-input-3-9d55e67ee92d>", line 1, in <module>
    from scipy import stats

  File "C:\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\scipy\stats\__init__.py", line 348, in <module>
    from .stats import *

  File "C:\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\scipy\stats\stats.py", line 175, in <module>
    import scipy.special as special

  File "C:\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\scipy\special\__init__.py", line 648, in <module>
    from ._ellip_harm import ellip_harm, ellip_harm_2, ellip_normal

  File "C:\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\scipy\special\_ellip_harm.py", line 7, in <module>
    from ._ellip_harm_2 import _ellipsoid, _ellipsoid_norm

ImportError: cannot import name '_ellipsoid'

What is the expected output? What do you see instead? Normal importing.

Please provide any additional information below

• I already tried to reinstall scipy, revert to scipy 0.19.0 (just recently updated to 0.19.1)
• I removed Spyder 3.2.0 and reinstalled 3.1.4 that solved the problem.

Strangely enough the import works with no problem when I call it from the command line, both in a ipython and in python console

Versions and main components

• Spyder Version: 3.2.0
• Python Version: 3.5.2
• Qt Version: 5.6.2
• PyQt Version: 5.6
• Operating system: Windows 10, Anaconda 64bit

Dependencies

IPython >=4.0 : 6.1.0 (OK) cython >=0.21 : 0.25.2 (OK) jedi >=0.9.0 : 0.10.2 (OK) nbconvert >=4.0 : 5.2.1 (OK) numpy >=1.7 : 1.13.1 (OK) pandas >=0.13.1 : 0.20.3 (OK) pycodestyle >=2.3: 2.3.1 (OK) pyflakes >=0.6.0 : 1.5.0 (OK) pygments >=2.0 : 2.2.0 (OK) pylint >=0.25 : 1.7.2 (OK) qtconsole >=4.2.0: 4.3.0 (OK) rope >=0.9.4 : 0.9.4-1 (OK) sphinx >=0.6.6 : 1.6.3 (OK) sympy >=0.7.3 : 1.1 (OK)

[ccordoba12]

3.6.0 had some troubles with compiled dependencies, so that could have been the cause of the problem.

[kvorosh]

Addendum to my previous reply: The problem did not appear for me in a virtual environment with only numpy and scipy (both from http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/) and spyder with its dependencies (installed using pip). Some time later I deleted Python 3.6.0 and installed 3.6.2, after which the problem did not reappear.