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Student
Student

Reputation: 1197

How to get SciKit-Learn to recognize my kernel in SVC?

I am using python 2.7. Documentation for SVC.

When I try the following:

from sklearn.svm import SVC
base_learner = SVC(random_state=4,probability=True)

It throws the following error:

TypeError: Argument 'kernel' has incorrect type (expected str, got unicode)

So I thought I would try this: 

from builtins import str
from sklearn.svm import SVC
base_learner = SVC(kernel=str('rbf'), random_state=4,probability=True)

Still doesn't recognize the kernel. What am I doing wrong?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 298

Answers (1)

fuglede
fuglede

Reputation: 18221

What you are doing should work in the newest versions of Python 2.7 and scikit-learn without having to resort to manually dealing with string conversion, so this sounds like a Python environment gone awry.

If you are using conda to manage your environments, you can try creating one from scratch through the following steps:

  1. Open Anaconda Prompt (or any command prompt from which you can run conda).

  2. Run conda create --name py27sklearn to create a new environment

  3. Activate that environment by running activate py27sklearn (or conda activate py27sklearn)

  4. Install Python 2.7 by running conda install python=2.7.

  5. Install scikit-learn by running conda install scikit-learn.

  6. Run a Python interpreter by running python.

  7. Verify that your code runs as expected.

You should see something like the following:

(py27sklearn) $ python
Python 2.7.15 |Anaconda, Inc.| (default, May  1 2018, 18:37:09) [MSC v.1500 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from sklearn.svm import SVC
>>> SVC(random_state=4, probability=True)
SVC(C=1.0, cache_size=200, class_weight=None, coef0=0.0,
  decision_function_shape='ovr', degree=3, gamma='auto', kernel='rbf',
  max_iter=-1, probability=True, random_state=4, shrinking=True, tol=0.001,
  verbose=False)

Upvotes: 1

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