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AlleyCat
AlleyCat

Reputation: 165

Understanding naming of imports and packages

from sklearn import linear_model

For the code above, I understand that "sklearn" is a package so what exactly is "liner_model"?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 24

Answers (1)

DeepSpace
DeepSpace

Reputation: 81594

It can really be anything, a module-level variable (ie string, integer), a class, a function or a sub-module . Some examples:

from pandas import match
from pandas import json
from pandas import DataFrame
from pandas import __version__

print(match)
print(json)
print(DataFrame)

outputs

<function match at 0x0000016BE3082950>  # function
<module 'pandas.json' from '\lib\site-packages\pandas\json.py'>  # module
<class 'pandas.core.frame.DataFrame'>  # class
0.23.4  # string

In that particualr case, sklearn.linear_model is a module, according to its docs:

The sklearn.linear_model module ...

Upvotes: 2

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