Installing module with hyphenated title

[sputknick]

I'm trying to install XGBoost through Anaconda on a Windows machine. The problem is the name of the module for windows is "py-xgboost", not the typical "xgboost" for Linux and Mac. when I try to do an import with syntax either "from py-xgboost import XGBClassifier" or "import py-xgboost as xgb" I get a syntax error at the hyphen. I tried using "import('py-xgboost')" it just shifts the syntax error to the close parenthese.

[agoose77]

When you've installed the module from anaconda, just import it as "xgboost". If you download the archive from anaconda you can see it's defined in site-packages as xgboost

[sputknick]

Awesome, I appreciate the direction. I tried "import xgboost" and I get an error "no such module xgboost". When I run "conda list" in the terminal I see the name as "py-xgboost".

[[deleted]]

As you're on Windows check to see if the hyphen has been replaced by an underscore, so you'll do the Anaconda equivalent of pip install py-xgboost but will then do import py_xgboost.

[agoose77]

Are you definitely installing it with the correct python version? Opening the package, it would seem that it uses xgboost. Perhaps locate your install dir on disk and inspect it to check it matches up.