[scikit-learn] Fwd: ValueError

[Ruchika Nayyar]

I am more naive than you ;) I have no clue!

Thanks,
Ruchika
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Dr Ruchika Nayyar,
Post Doctoral Fellow for ATLAS Collaboration
University of Arizona
Arizona, USA.
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On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 11:50 AM, Sebastian Raschka <
mail at sebastianraschka.com> wrote:

> Oh that’s interesting, thanks for the info! I have never used the system
> Python and didn’t know that it comes with its own NumPy & SciPy; I thought
> it was more bare bones (sorry about the naive question, but is this a
> recent thing in Yosemite or has it been always like this?)
>
> > On Jun 1, 2016, at 2:39 PM, Matthew Brett <matthew.brett at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 11:17 AM, Sebastian Raschka
> > <mail at sebastianraschka.com> wrote:
> >>> I think you're using system Python on the Mac.   I'd really strongly
> >>> recommend against that, because system Python
> >>
> >> Yeah, but I think that the system Python doesn’t come with NumPy and
> SciPy installed on a Mac?
> >
> > That's the entire problem - system Python has its own private copy of
> > numpy and scipy and matplotlib that are not in the usual sys.path
> > places:
> >
> > $ /usr/bin/python -c 'import numpy; print(numpy.__file__)'
> >
> /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Extras/lib/python/numpy/__init__.pyc
> >
> > Then, if you try to upgrade them with pip, the new packages are below
> > the private copies in directory precedence, and the effect is that the
> > upgrade is ignored.
> >
> > In effect, system Python is for the system, if you want to own your
> > Python, you need to install another copy for yourself.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Matthew
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