psycopg2 - ImportError: DLL load failed while importing _psycopg: The operating system cannot run %1

I installed psycopg2 using conda on Windows 10.

https://anaconda.org/anaconda/psycopg2

I did it in a clean new conda environment (named wr).

I then tried to run this sample app but I am getting this error (see below). I have no idea what I might be doing wrong because it was all straightforward and I did it in a clean way.

Any ideas how to solve this?

import psycopg2
try:
    connection = psycopg2.connect(user = "***",
                                  password = "***",
                                  host = "***",
                                  port = "5432",
                                  database = "***")


    cursor = connection.cursor()
    # Print PostgreSQL Connection properties
    print ( connection.get_dsn_parameters(),"\n")

    # Print PostgreSQL version
    cursor.execute("SELECT version();")
    record = cursor.fetchone()
    print("You are connected to - ", record,"\n")

except (Exception, psycopg2.Error) as error :
    print ("Error while connecting to PostgreSQL", error)
finally:
    #closing database connection.
        if(connection):
            cursor.close()
            connection.close()
            print("PostgreSQL connection is closed")

Error in VS code:

PS C:\Work\WRR\git\tools\JTunnelTestApp>  cd 'c:\Work\WRR\git\tools\JTunnelTestApp'; & 'C:\Programs\Anaconda3\envs\wr\python.exe' 'c:\Users\petrop01\.vscode\extensions\ms-python.python-2020.9.114305\pythonFiles\lib\python\debugpy\launcher' '56143' '--' 'c:\Work\WRR\git\tools\JTunnelTestApp\main.py'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "c:\Work\WRR\git\tools\JTunnelTestApp\main.py", line 1, in <module>
    import psycopg2
  File "C:\Programs\Anaconda3\envs\wr\lib\site-packages\psycopg2\__init__.py", line 51, in <module>
    from psycopg2._psycopg import (                     # noqa
ImportError: DLL load failed while importing _psycopg: The operating system cannot run %1.
PS C:\Work\WRR\git\tools\JTunnelTestApp>

EDIT: Seems they had a bug open for this 2 years ago and they just closed it, ignoring it completely.

https://github.com/psycopg/psycopg2/issues/734

you can use psycopg2-binary library instead of psycopg2. after installation the usage is the same.