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user3975306

Reputation:

sklearn.externals module description

I could not find any description about the sklearn.externals module in scikit-learn. Does anybody knows what is this module for?

And what is sklearn.externals.six.moves doing exactly?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 4486

Answers (2)

serv-inc
serv-inc

Reputation: 38247

And what is sklearn.externals.six.moves doing exactly?

Nothing. It is created in six.py and populated via the add_move() method, which is never called. To check via command-line:

>>> from sklearn import externals
>>> externals.six.moves
<module 'sklearn.externals.six.moves' (built-in)>
>>> help(externals.six.moves)
# gives nothing, let's see its attributes and methods
>>> externals.six.moves.__dict__
{'__name__': 'sklearn.externals.six.moves', '__doc__': None}

Upvotes: 1

BrenBarn
BrenBarn

Reputation: 251428

You can see a readme on that module's Github page. It says:

This directory contains bundled external dependencies that are updated every once in a while.

In other words, the code in there is not really part of scikit, it's just other libraries that scikit uses, but it stores its own copies of them inside itself to avoid dependency problems if the user has different versions installed.

Upvotes: 3

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