joyofdata opened a new issue #15681: ImportError: cannot import name 'np'
URL: https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/issues/15681
## Description
I installed mxnet with `sudo pip3 install mxnet` but I cannot import `np` or `npx` from `mxnet`. Importing `mxnet` itself works.
## Environment info (Required)
```
➜ ~ python3 diagnose.py
----------Python Info----------
Version : 3.6.8
Compiler : GCC 8.0.1 20180414 (experimental) [trunk revision 259383
Build : ('default', 'Jan 14 2019 11:02:34')
Arch : ('64bit', 'ELF')
------------Pip Info-----------
Version : 18.1
Directory : /usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/pip
----------MXNet Info-----------
Version : 1.5.0
Directory : /usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/mxnet
Commit Hash : 75a9e187d00a8b7ebc71412a02ed0e3ae489d91f
Library : ['/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/mxnet/libmxnet.so']
Build features:
✖ CUDA
✖ CUDNN
✖ NCCL
✖ CUDA_RTC
✖ TENSORRT
✔ CPU_SSE
✔ CPU_SSE2
✔ CPU_SSE3
✔ CPU_SSE4_1
✔ CPU_SSE4_2
✖ CPU_SSE4A
✔ CPU_AVX
✖ CPU_AVX2
✖ OPENMP
✖ SSE
✔ F16C
✖ JEMALLOC
✖ BLAS_OPEN
✖ BLAS_ATLAS
✖ BLAS_MKL
✖ BLAS_APPLE
✔ LAPACK
✖ MKLDNN
✔ OPENCV
✖ CAFFE
✖ PROFILER
✔ DIST_KVSTORE
✖ CXX14
✖ INT64_TENSOR_SIZE
✔ SIGNAL_HANDLER
✖ DEBUG
----------System Info----------
Platform : Linux-4.15.0-55-generic-x86_64-with-LinuxMint-19.1-tessa
system : Linux
node : raffael-ThinkPad-T450
release : 4.15.0-55-generic
version : #60-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jul 2 18:22:20 UTC 2019
----------Hardware Info----------
machine : x86_64
processor : x86_64
Architecture: x86_64
CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit
Byte Order: Little Endian
CPU(s): 4
On-line CPU(s) list: 0-3
Thread(s) per core: 2
Core(s) per socket: 2
Socket(s): 1
NUMA node(s): 1
Vendor ID: GenuineIntel
CPU family: 6
Model: 61
Model name: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-5300U CPU @ 2.30GHz
Stepping: 4
CPU MHz: 2074.164
CPU max MHz: 2900,0000
CPU min MHz: 500,0000
BogoMIPS: 4589.41
Virtualization: VT-x
L1d cache: 32K
L1i cache: 32K
L2 cache: 256K
L3 cache: 3072K
NUMA node0 CPU(s): 0-3
Flags: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc cpuid aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 sdbg fma cx16 xtpr pdcm pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic movbe popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave avx f16c rdrand lahf_lm abm 3dnowprefetch cpuid_fault epb invpcid_single pti ssbd ibrs ibpb stibp tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid fsgsbase tsc_adjust bmi1 hle avx2 smep bmi2 erms invpcid rtm rdseed adx smap intel_pt xsaveopt dtherm ida arat pln pts md_clear flush_l1d
----------Network Test----------
Setting timeout: 10
Timing for MXNet: https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet, DNS: 0.0140 sec, LOAD: 3.4517 sec.
Timing for Gluon Tutorial(en): http://gluon.mxnet.io, DNS: 0.0355 sec, LOAD: 0.8834 sec.
Timing for Gluon Tutorial(cn): https://zh.gluon.ai, DNS: 0.0540 sec, LOAD: 0.8669 sec.
Timing for FashionMNIST: https://apache-mxnet.s3-accelerate.dualstack.amazonaws.com/gluon/dataset/fashion-mnist/train-labels-idx1-ubyte.gz, DNS: 0.0452 sec, LOAD: 1.2886 sec.
Timing for PYPI: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pip, DNS: 0.0192 sec, LOAD: 0.5317 sec.
Timing for Conda: https://repo.continuum.io/pkgs/free/, DNS: 0.0009 sec, LOAD: 0.0582 sec.
```
## Error Message:
```
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
ImportError Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-3-a155cea35485> in <module>
----> 1 from mxnet import np
ImportError: cannot import name 'np'
```
## Minimum reproducible example
`from mxnet import np`
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