Cannot import Scikit-Learn

Question

I tried to install scikit-learn on my Linux Mint 12 but failed. I downloaded the package from http://pypi.python.org/pypi/scikit-learn/ and installed with

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Answer 1

I ran into this today on OS X El Capitan. Unfortunately, reinstalling/installing didn't work, since the problem ended up being that numpy installation native to OS X was preferred over the one being installed by pip.

I was able to solve this by following the guidance in: https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/223163

In particular, I used the approach of fixing the python path to prefer pip libraries over OS X native libraries:

Create a file called fix_mac_path.pth in /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages that has the following:

import sys; std_paths=[p for p in sys.path if p.startswith('/System/')]; sys.path=[p for p in sys.path if not p.startswith('/System/')]+std_paths

Answer 2

i was having the exact same problem. I managed to make it work by installing the windows binary for 64 bit windows from http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#scikit-learn . Hope this works for you

Answer 3

I'm not really sure, but according to this that error happens when a package that depends on numpy is compiled targeting a specific version (or a specific platform), and that package is then installed in a different environment. How did you install those two packages? (numpy and scipy)

I'd suggest uninstalling both and then reinstalling SciPy, either using pip or from source.