Why does this AttributeError in python occur?

Question

There is one thing, that I do not understand.

Why does this

import scipy # happens with several other modules, too. I took scipy as an example now...         


        

Answer 1

AttributeError is raised when attribute of the object is not available.

An attribute reference is a primary followed by a period and a name:

attributeref ::= primary "." identifier

To return a list of valid attributes for that object, use dir(), e.g.:

dir(scipy)

So probably you need to do simply: import scipy.sparse