jakevdp/scikit-learn — comment on commit 6fa79554d77a35e81f444551e9c7482691c42dd1
File: sklearn/__init__.py line 54
By GaelVaroquaux:

> Perhaps... but it is an error in both numpy and scipy. I wonder if there's a reason for this we're not aware of?

I beliebe that it is to capture problem for people who haven't done
a proper install and just a build (in which case the __config__ module
isn't deployed. However, this should be captured by our '_check_build'
module.