I have installed the package python-numpy
on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.
Unfortunately, the package is broken:
>>> import numpy
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/numpy/__init__.py", line 180, in <module>
from . import add_newdocs
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/numpy/add_newdocs.py", line 13, in <module>
from numpy.lib import add_newdoc
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/numpy/lib/__init__.py", line 8, in <module>
from .type_check import *
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/numpy/lib/type_check.py", line 11, in <module>
import numpy.core.numeric as _nx
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/numpy/core/__init__.py", line 14, in <module>
from . import multiarray
ImportError: cannot import name multiarray
Does Python often get broken in Ubuntu? Numpy is a pretty basic package.
Best Answer
OP solved the problem:
An alternative way without uninstalling Anaconda, reset python link to default (pointing to python2 from repository)