title: Error importing seaborn in ipython notebook - working in ipython
body: <p>I have a somewhat similear problem as <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28828917/error-importing-seaborn-module-in-python">this guy</a>: when I want to import seaborn in my ipython notebook I get an import error. When I try to import seaborn in ipython console it works! What is the problem?</p>
  
  <pre><code>ImportError                               Traceback (most recent call last)
  &lt;ipython-input-6-085c0287ecb5&gt; in &lt;module&gt;()
  ----&gt; 1 import seaborn
  
  /usr/lib/python3.4/site-packages/seaborn/__init__.py in &lt;module&gt;()
  ----&gt; 1 from .rcmod import *
        2 from .utils import *
        3 from .palettes import *
        4 from .linearmodels import *
        5 from .distributions import *
  
  /usr/lib/python3.4/site-packages/seaborn/rcmod.py in &lt;module&gt;()
        3 import matplotlib as mpl
        4 
  ----&gt; 5 from . import palettes
        6 
        7 
  
  /usr/lib/python3.4/site-packages/seaborn/palettes.py in &lt;module&gt;()
       11 from .external.six.moves import range
       12 
  ---&gt; 13 from .utils import desaturate, set_hls_values
       14 from .xkcd_rgb import xkcd_rgb
       15 from .miscplot import palplot
  
  /usr/lib/python3.4/site-packages/seaborn/utils.py in &lt;module&gt;()
        5 
        6 import numpy as np
  ----&gt; 7 from scipy import stats
        8 import pandas as pd
        9 import matplotlib.colors as mplcol
  
  /usr/lib/python3.4/site-packages/scipy/stats/__init__.py in &lt;module&gt;()
      336 from __future__ import division, print_function, absolute_import
      337 
  --&gt; 338 from .stats import *
      339 from .distributions import *
      340 from .rv import *
  
  /usr/lib/python3.4/site-packages/scipy/stats/stats.py in &lt;module&gt;()
      186 import numpy as np
      187 
  --&gt; 188 from . import futil
      189 from . import distributions
      190 
  
  ImportError: cannot import name 'futil'
  </code></pre>