ImportError: cannot import name NUMPY_MKL
If you look at the line which is causing the error, you'll see this:
from numpy._distributor_init import NUMPY_MKL # requires numpy+mklThis line comment states the dependency as numpy+mkl (numpy with Intel Math Kernel Library). This means that you've installed the numpy by pip, but the scipy was installed by precompiled archive, which expects numpy+mkl.
This problem can be easy solved by installation for numpy+mkl from whl file from here.
Reinstall numpy-1.11.0_XXX.whl (for your Python) from www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs. This file has the same name and version if compare with the variant downloaded by me earlier 29.03.2016, but its size and content differ from old variant. After re-installation error disappeared.
Second option - return back to scipy 0.17.0 from 0.17.1
P.S. I use Windows 64-bit version of Python 3.5.1, so can't guarantee that numpy for Python 2.7 is already corrected.
I'm not sure if this is a good solution but it removed the error. I commented out the line:
from numpy._distributor_init import NUMPY_MKL and it worked. Not sure if this will cause other features to break though