Problems with scipy package import when using mwpython

I have created a Python package with MATLAB Compiler SDK (R2018a). I have been able to include that package and execute functions in Python, but have been having trouble with including other Python packages in my Python script. I am on a Mac and as such I have to use the Matlab script mwpython to run my Matlab generated Python packages. When I try to import scipy.io I get the following:

CEFNS-Mavericks:~ mws22$ mwpython
Python 2.7.10 (v2.7.10:15c95b7d81dc, May 23 2015, 09:33:12) 
[GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5666) (dot 3)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

>>> import scipy
>>> import scipy.io
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/Users/mws22/anaconda2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/scipy/io/__init__.py", line 97, in <module>
    from .matlab import loadmat, savemat, whosmat, byteordercodes
  File "/Users/mws22/anaconda2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/scipy/io/matlab/__init__.py", line 13, in <module>
    from .mio import loadmat, savemat, whosmat
  File "/Users/mws22/anaconda2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/scipy/io/matlab/mio.py", line 12, in <module>
    from .miobase import get_matfile_version, docfiller
  File "/Users/mws22/anaconda2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/scipy/io/matlab/miobase.py", line 22, in <module>
    from scipy.misc import doccer
  File "/Users/mws22/anaconda2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/scipy/misc/__init__.py", line 68, in <module>
    from scipy.interpolate._pade import pade as _pade
  File "/Users/mws22/anaconda2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/scipy/interpolate/__init__.py", line 175, in <module>
    from .interpolate import *
  File "/Users/mws22/anaconda2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/scipy/interpolate/interpolate.py", line 21, in <module>
    import scipy.special as spec
  File "/Users/mws22/anaconda2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/scipy/special/__init__.py", line 640, in <module>
    from ._ufuncs import *
ImportError: dlopen(/Users/mws22/anaconda2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/scipy/special/_ufuncs.so, 2): Symbol not found: __gfortran_stop_numeric_f08
  Referenced from: /Users/mws22/anaconda2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/scipy/special/_ufuncs.so
  Expected in: /Applications/MATLAB_R2018a.app/sys/os/maci64/libgfortran.3.dylib
 in /Users/mws22/anaconda2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/scipy/special/_ufuncs.so

As you can see, the import of scipy works fine, but scipy.io throws an error that I can't seem to figure out. What is weird is that if I run >>python rather than >>mwpython the scipy.io imports just fine. That lead me to think it was a problem with my sys path variable. In mwpython, when I do import sys and sys.path I get:

'/Users/mws22/anaconda2/lib/python2.7/site-packages'
'/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages'
'/Users/mws22/anaconda2/lib/python27.zip'
'/Users/mws22/anaconda2/lib/python2.7'
'/Users/mws22/anaconda2/lib/python2.7/plat-darwin'
'/Users/mws22/anaconda2/lib/python2.7/plat-mac'
'/Users/mws22/anaconda2/lib/python2.7/plat-mac/lib-scriptpackages'
'/Users/mws22/anaconda2/lib/python2.7/lib-tk'
'/Users/mws22/anaconda2/lib/python2.7/lib-old'
'/Users/mws22/anaconda2/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload'
'/Users/mws22/anaconda2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/aeosa'

In mwpython, when I do import sys and sys.path I get:

'/Users/mws22/anaconda2/lib/python2.7/site-packages'
'/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages'
'/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python27.zip'
'/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7'
'/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/plat-darwin'
'/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/plat-mac'
'/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/plat-mac/lib-scriptpackages'
'/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/lib-tk'
'/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/lib-old'
'/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload'
'/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages'

They both point to /Users/mws22/anaconda2/lib/python2.7/site-packages where I know scipy is installed (io is a subdirectory of scipy).

I am at a loss as to what to do to be able to use scipy and my MATLAB generated python packages in the same program. Any help would be appreciated.

[Michael]

A related note: I am having the same problem with matplotlib. I can import matplotlib just fine, but matplotlib.pyplot throws the following:

>>> import matplotlib.pyplot as platform

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/Users/mws22/anaconda2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/pyplot.py", line 31, in <module>
    import matplotlib.colorbar
  File "/Users/mws22/anaconda2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/colorbar.py", line 36, in <module>
    import matplotlib.contour as contour
  File "/Users/mws22/anaconda2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/contour.py", line 20, in <module>
    import matplotlib.font_manager as font_manager
  File "/Users/mws22/anaconda2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/font_manager.py", line 55, in <module>
    from matplotlib import afm, cbook, ft2font, rcParams, get_cachedir
ImportError: dlopen(/Users/mws22/anaconda2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/ft2font.so, 2): Library not loaded: @rpath/libfreetype.6.dylib
  Referenced from: /Users/mws22/anaconda2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/ft2font.so
  Reason: Incompatible library version: ft2font.so requires version 21.0.0 or later, but libfreetype.6.dylib provides version 18.0.0