ImportError: cannot import name choice when importing sklearn.mixture

Question

I am using scikit learn 0.15.0. When I try to import sklearn.mixture I get ImportError: cannot import name choice

Any ideas?

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Answer 1

I was getting the same error when I tried to import KMeans as : from sklearn.cluster import KMeans

Error > ImportError: cannot import name choice

I found the answer here: https://github.com/scikit-learn/scikit-learn/issues/3461

Since I have upgraded to Scikit version 0.15 a few days back, the older version of random.so was present in /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/sklearn/utils.

I manually deleted it and now I do not get the error anymore.

Hope this helps.