def add(self, elem, replace=False):
        """Add a requirement.

        :param elem: a string or :class:`Requirement` instance.
        :param replace: if `True`, packages in the set with the same name will
            be removed first.
        """
        if isinstance(elem, text_type):
            elem = Requirement.coerce(elem)
        if replace and elem in self:
            self.remove(elem)
        super(Requirements, self).add(elem)
def compute_svm_cv(K, y, C=100.0, n_folds=5,
                   scoring=balanced_accuracy_scoring):
    """Compute cross-validated score of SVM with given precomputed kernel.
    """
    cv = StratifiedKFold(y, n_folds=n_folds)
    clf = SVC(C=C, kernel='precomputed', class_weight='auto')
    scores = cross_val_score(clf, K, y,
                             scoring=scoring, cv=cv)
    return scores.mean()