AttributeError: module 'scipy' has no attribute 'sparse' in sklearn/utils/fixes.py

Description

I have updated sklearn, scipy (previously all worked fine). As a result, the error started to occur in sklearn\utils\fixes.py:

AttributeError: module 'scipy' has no attribute 'sparse'

I have tried to execute the same import command from fixes.py and it failed with error:

import scipy.sparse as sp 

Following command is working:

from scipy import sparse 

Steps/Code to Reproduce

from sklearn import datasets

iris = datasets.load_iris()

Expected Results

No error is thrown

Actual Results

File "....projects/Test.py", line 8, in <module>
    from sklearn import datasets

  File "C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\sklearn\__init__.py", line 64, in <module>
    from .base import clone

  File "C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\sklearn\base.py", line 14, in <module>
    from .utils.fixes import signature

  File "C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\sklearn\utils\__init__.py", line 16, in <module>
    from .fixes import _Sequence as Sequence

  File "C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\sklearn\utils\fixes.py", line 20, in <module>
    import scipy.sparse as sp

AttributeError: module 'scipy' has no attribute 'sparse'

Versions

python: 3.6.8 scikit-learn 0.20.3 numpy: 1.15.4 scipy: 1.2.1 platform: Windows-8.1-6.3.9600-SP0

[rjdoubleu]

@TatianaParshina what versions are you running? I have the following:

numpy-1.18.1 scikit-learn-0.22.1 scipy-1.4.1

and am receiving the same errors after reinstall.

[yuslepukhin]

I would bet you have called a file scipy.py somewhere in your PYTHONPATH

Yes, I saw earlier posts and checked for that. I just needed to import sparse in addition to scipy.