ImportError: No module named scipy.sparse
Solution 1
scipy path mixed up. Uninstall
pip uninstall scipy
Install using conda worked for me
conda install scipy
Solution 2
In Ubuntu 18.04 and later you could install Scipy and Keras for Python 3 with sudo apt install python3-scipy python3-keras
and you'd be good to go, however you are using Ubuntu 16.04 and you installed Scipy for Python 2 which is not compatible with TensorFlow for Python 3.4, 3.5 and 3.6, so install the default Scipy package for Python 3 instead with this command:
sudo apt install python3-scipy
For further instructions on installing TensorFlow in Ubuntu read this answer. It's worth reading because you are going to have to check for package version compatibility when working with TensorFlow from now on.
The command pip install scipy
is not correct either if the purpose of that command was to upgrade Scipy. The correct command to upgrade Scipy would have been pip install --upgrade --user scipy
and even so it would have been useless because your scipy that is currently installed is only for Python 2 and your TensorFlow is for Python 3.
userInThisWorld
Updated on June 18, 2022Comments
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userInThisWorld almost 2 years
I installed Scipy on Ubuntu using the following commands:
sudo apt-get install python-scipy pip install scipy
but when run import, I get this error:
ImportError: No module named scipy.sparse
I searched and tried the following and reinstalled Scipy:
sudo apt-get purge python-scipy
but still got the same error.
Update: I didn't import scipy in my python file, just imported keras.
Here is the error message:
(my_env) .. $ python test.py Using TensorFlow backend. Traceback (most recent call last): File "test.py", line 10, in <module> import keras File "/home/ ../my_env/lib/python3.5/site-packages/keras/__init__.py", line 3, in <module> from . import utils File "/home/ ../my_env/lib/python3.5/site-packages/keras/utils/__init__.py", line 27, in <module> from .multi_gpu_utils import multi_gpu_model File "/home/ ../my_env/lib/python3.5/site-packages/keras/utils/multi_gpu_utils.py", line 7, in <module> from ..layers.merge import concatenate File "/home/ ../my_env/lib/python3.5/site-packages/keras/layers/__init__.py", line 4, in <module> from ..engine.base_layer import Layer File "/home/ ../my_env/lib/python3.5/site-packages/keras/engine/__init__.py", line 8, in <module> from .training import Model File "/home/ ../my_env/lib/python3.5/site-packages/keras/engine/training.py", line 21, in <module> from . import training_arrays File "/home/../my_env/lib/python3.5/site-packages/keras/engine/training_arrays.py", line 8, in <module> from scipy.sparse import issparse ImportError: No module named 'scipy.sparse'
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Ahmed Hawary about 5 yearsThen I think your Scipy install went wrong. Try to uninstall and install the wheel file this time: lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#scipy
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userInThisWorld about 5 yearsnothing appeared when execute which python .. but with python -- version .. pythn3.5.2 and from pip freeze scipy==1.2.1 is shown
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Ahmed Hawary about 5 yearsDid you try to install it through wheel file?
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Ahmed Hawary about 5 yearsI also do recommend to try installing Anaconda distribution . It would save plenty of time of installing packages and that type of issues.
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kitokid about 3 yearsyou can also use
conda install -c conda-forge scipy
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ah bon about 3 years
pip install --upgrade --user scipy
solved my problem, thanks.