I am trying to run xgboost using spyder and python, but I keep getting this error:
AttributeError: module ‘xgboost’ has no attribute ‘XGBRegressor’
Here is the code:
import xgboost as xgb
xgb.XGBRegressor(max_depth=3, learning_rate=0.1, n_estimators=100, silent=True,
objective='reg:linear', gamma=0, min_child_weight=1,
max_delta_step=0, subsample=1, colsample_bytree=1,
seed=0, missing=None)
Error is
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<ipython-input-33-d257a9a2a5d8>", line 1, in <module>
xgb.XGBRegressor(max_depth=3, learning_rate=0.1, n_estimators=100, silent=True,
AttributeError: module 'xgboost' has no attribute 'XGBRegressor'
I have
Python 3.5.2 :: Anaconda 4.2.0 (x86_64)
How do I solve this?
We probably have the same problem.
I solved it by telling Python explicitly where to find xgboost library.
The reason is that I have more than one scripts with the name xgboost.py. Python might have imported one of them mistakenly, so that it cannot find the definition of 'XGBRegressor'.
Here is the command I used:
export PYTHONPATH=PATH_TO_YOUR_setup.py_file
For me, PATH_TO_YOUR_setup.py_file is ~/xgboost/python-package
Since your dir call is missing basically everything, my suspicion is that wherever you're starting your script from has an xgboost subfolder with an empty __init__.py in it that is being found first by your import.
I had the exact same problem with Python 3.6.2 and Anaconda 1.6.8 on windows10 64bits (fall creator update)
To get it to work, here is what I did :
1/ Uninstall xgboost from within anaconda, in the chosen environement.
2/ Manually deleted the xgboost directory in C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3
3/ Downloaded xgboost from This page
4/ From Anaconda, launch a command prompt from (from the environment you want xgboost into of course)
5/ CD to the directory you downloaded the whl file to and type : pip install xgboost‑0.6+20171121‑cp36‑cp36m‑win_amd64.whl (or the exact name of the file you downloaded)
I did all these steps and xgboost worked properly
I had to make sure to follow all the download instructions from the xgboost website. After installing and compiling, i forgot to run these.
https://xgboost.readthedocs.io/en/latest/build.html#python-package-installation
