How can I solve cannot import name 'fetch_openml' from 'sklearn.datasets'

Question

I'm learning sklearn, but I can't use fetch_openml(). It says,

ImportError: cannot import name 'fetch_openml' from 'sklearn.datasets'

Answer 1

In the new version of sklearn, it's even easier to fetch open ML Datasets. For example, you can add import and fetch mnist dataset as:

from sklearn.datasets import fetch_openml
X, y = fetch_openml('mnist_784', version=1, return_X_y=True, as_frame=False)
print(X.shape, y.shape)

For more details check official example.

Answer 2

Apparently, fetch_mldata has been deprecated in the newer sklearn. Use load_digits to achieve loading the MNIST data.