Error importing scipy.sparse._sparsetools

Question

I\'m working on a macbook pro trying to use the gensim package to do Word2Vec. I had used the model earlier in the week, but when I tried to resume using it, I was given an

Answer 1

Your issue is likely caused by a linking problem described in this github issue.

Since you are already using anaconda, probably the best strategy for you is to use compiled binaries instead of trying to compile with pip yourself.

The only two things you have to do is:

pip uninstall scipy
conda install scipy