Description

I have the same error as indicated on stack overflow (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/43964166/imp-module-is-deprecated-in-favour-of-importlib)
And, Khushhalm's answer on this page does fix the problem; but I'm wondering if this could be fixed permanently. Thanks.

importing sklearn modules ..

from sklearn.base import BaseEstimator, TransformerMixin

generates this error

/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/sklearn/externals/joblib/externals/cloudpickle/cloudpickle.py:47: DeprecationWarning: the imp module is deprecated in favour of importlib; see the module's documentation for alternative uses

Steps/Code to Reproduce

starting the Python terminal and entering the following

from sklearn.base import BaseEstimator, TransformerMixin

generates this error

/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/sklearn/externals/joblib/externals/cloudpickle/cloudpickle.py:47: DeprecationWarning: the imp module is deprecated in favour of importlib; see the module's documentation for alternative uses

Expected Results

No error is thrown.

Actual Results

/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/sklearn/externals/joblib/externals/cloudpickle/cloudpickle.py:47: DeprecationWarning: the imp module is deprecated in favour of importlib; see the module's documentation for alternative uses

Versions

System

python: 3.6.6 (default, Sep 12 2018, 18:26:19)  [GCC 8.0.1 20180414 (experimental) [trunk revision 259383]]

executable: /usr/local/bin/python
machine: Linux-4.4.0-137-generic-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-18.04-bionic

BLAS

macros:

lib_dirs:
cblas_libs: cblas

Python deps

   pip: 18.1

setuptools: 39.0.1
sklearn: 0.20.0
numpy: 1.15.2
scipy: 1.1.0
Cython: 0.29
pandas: 0.23.4