AttributeError: Module 'scipy' has no attribute 'empty'

[yalda1205]

Hi, I install the package using these lines:
git clone https://github.com/bbalasub1/glmnet_python.git
cd glmnet_python
python setup.py install

and then try to import the package:
import glmnet_python

but there is this error:

{
"name": "AttributeError",
"message": "Module 'scipy' has no attribute 'empty'",
"stack": "---------------------------------------------------------------------------
KeyError Traceback (most recent call last)
File ~/venv_environments/glmnet/lib/python3.11/site-packages/scipy/init.py:137, in getattr(name)
136 try:
--> 137 return globals()[name]
138 except KeyError:

KeyError: 'empty'

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

AttributeError Traceback (most recent call last)
Cell In[1], line 3
1 import scipy, importlib, pprint, matplotlib.pyplot as plt, warnings
2 from scipy import integrate
----> 3 import glmnet_python
4 from glmnet import glmnet
5 from glmnet import glmnet; from glmnetPlot import glmnetPlot

File ~/venv_environments/glmnet/lib/python3.11/site-packages/glmnet_python/init.py:10
8 from .glmnetPlot import glmnetPlot
9 from .glmnetPrint import glmnetPrint
---> 10 from .glmnetCoef import glmnetCoef
11 from .glmnetPredict import glmnetPredict
12 from .cvglmnet import cvglmnet

File ~/venv_environments/glmnet/lib/python3.11/site-packages/glmnet_python/glmnetCoef.py:72
2 """
3 --------------------------------------------------------------------------
4 glmnetCoef computes coefficients from a "glmnet" object.
(...)
68
69 """
71 import scipy
---> 72 from glmnetPredict import glmnetPredict
74 def glmnetCoef(obj, s = None, exact = False):
76 if s is None:

File ~/venv_environments/glmnet/lib/python3.11/site-packages/glmnet_python/glmnetPredict.py:110
106 import scipy
107 import scipy.interpolate
109 def glmnetPredict(fit,\
--> 110 newx = scipy.empty([0]), \
111 s = scipy.empty([0]), \
112 ptype = 'link', \
113 exact = False, \
114 offset = scipy.empty([0])):
116 typebase = ['link', 'response', 'coefficients', 'nonzero', 'class']
117 indxtf = [x.startswith(ptype.lower()) for x in typebase]

File ~/venv_environments/glmnet/lib/python3.11/site-packages/scipy/init.py:139, in getattr(name)
137 return globals()[name]
138 except KeyError:
--> 139 raise AttributeError(
140 f"Module 'scipy' has no attribute '{name}'"
141 )

AttributeError: Module 'scipy' has no attribute 'empty'"
}

Could you please help me how can I solve it?

[petomajci]

I ran into the same problem. Downgrading to scipy 1.11.0 solved it for me (e.g. pip install scipy==1.11.0)