I get error , cannot import from file helper

Question

Please help, I get the error below running jupyter notebook.

import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
from helper import boston_dataframe

np.set_printoptions(precision=3, suppress=True)

Error:

ImportError                               Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-3-a6117bd64450> in <module>
      1 import numpy as np
      2 import pandas as pd
----> 3 from helper import boston_dataframe
      4 
      5 

ImportError: cannot import name 'boston_dataframe' from 'helper' (/Users/irina/opt/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/helper/__init__.py)

I suspect that you installed helper which is this code: github.com/gmr/helper available from pypi under the helper project. It does not contain a boston_dataframe variable. So the question here is which helper are you suppose to use for this notebook? Is there a helper code somewhere distributed with this notebook? — astrochun
– astrochun, Commented Feb 20, 2021 at 13:39
there is a helper file that came with the notebook. i have downloaded it. It works for other notebooks but not fr this one — Irina
– Irina, Commented Feb 20, 2021 at 13:46
This seems like a relative path. See the below answer. If you want to use it more generally then you will want to include it in a number of ways, such as adding the directory to PYTHONPATH. But having this specific code in the same place will be clear which helper library/module you're using. — astrochun
– astrochun, Commented Feb 20, 2021 at 13:57

dinhanhx · Accepted Answer · 2021-02-20 14:01:32Z

2

Since you are not giving the where you get the notebook, I have to guess that you get it from this course Supervised Learning: Regression provided IBM.

In the zip folder in week 1, it provides helper.py.

What you need to do it is to change the directory to where this file is. Change IPython/Jupyter notebook working directory

Alternatively, you can load boston data from sklearn then load it to Pandas Dataframe

Advices for you:

edited Feb 20, 2021 at 14:01

answered Feb 20, 2021 at 13:48

dinhanhx

1975 silver badges20 bronze badges

Sign up to request clarification or add additional context in comments.

Collectives™ on Stack Overflow

I get error , cannot import from file helper

1 Answer 1

Comments

Your Answer

Linked

Hot Network Questions

Collectives™ on Stack Overflow

1 Answer 1

Comments

Your Answer

Sign up or log in

Post as a guest

Linked

Related