can't use scikit-learn - “AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute …”

Question

I\'m trying to follow this tutorial of scikit-learn (linear regression).

I\'ve installed scikit through pip install -U scikit-learn, I use python 2.7 an

Answer 1

I had a similar problem and tried troubleshooting based on this article by Nick Coghlan since none of the suggested answers seemed to fix my problem.

I fell into the so-called "Double Import trap". what I had was something like:

import sklearn
import sklearn.preprocessing

by removing one of the imports and resetting my workspace I managed to fix the problem.

Answer 2

I faced same issue but then i realized that my program name was sklearn.py . In case if any one sees this type of error also check that you program name is not same as the package name , or else you will get module object has no attribute error, as in the question .

Answer 3

It seems that the package loaded from sklearn were the one from the distribution library and not the one installed from pip. Solution for me (debian) was to reinstall the pip package. This can be checked with:

import sklearn
sklearn.__path__

If this shows /usr/lib/python/, then is it using the distribution.

The problem got solved by uninstalling and reinstalling sklearn.

 $ pip uninstall scikit-learn
 $ pip install scikit-learn