Why do we import scikit-learn with sklearn?

Question

Why is that we install the scikit-learn package with:

conda install scikit-learn 

but then import (modules from) the package in a script using the name sklearn, e.g.:

from sklearn import x

Answer 1

scikit-learn isn't a valid identifier in python, so it can't be that. I suppose that they could have named the package scikit_learn, but that's a lot to type so I suppose they just decided to shorten the package name for convenience.

Of course, if you're so inclined, you can:

import sklearn as scikit_learn

:-)