ImportError: cannot import name __check_build while importing TfidfVectorizer from sklearn

Question

I am using Python 2.7.10 and have installed scikit-0.15.2 using pip and i already have \"numpy-1.1.10\" and \"scipy-0.16.0\" installed and it works fine but when i try to import

Answer 1

For windows user try to install numpy+mkl package from http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#scikit-learn and after successful installation restart the python

Answer 2

Had the same problem. installing scipy solved the problem for me. Try...

#sudo pip install scipy

What does it say if you fire up a python prompt and type

import scipy

also there might be some pointers in this thread ImportError in importing from sklearn: cannot import name check_build