RuntimeError: module compiled against API version a but this version of numpy is 9

Question

Code:

import numpy as np
import cv

Console:

>>> runfile('/Users/isaiahnields/.spyder2/temp.py', wdir='/Users/isaiahnields/.spyder2')
RuntimeError: module compiled against API version a but this version of numpy is 9
Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "/Applications/Spyder-Py2.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python2.7/spyderlib/widgets/externalshell/sitecustomize.py", line 685, in runfile
execfile(filename, namespace)
File "/Applications/Spyder-Py2.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python2.7/spyderlib/widgets/externalshell/sitecustomize.py", line 78, in execfile
builtins.execfile(filename, *where)
File "/Users/isaiahnields/.spyder2/temp.py", line 9, in <module>
import cv
File "/Applications/Spyder-Py2.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python2.7/cv.py", line 1, in <module>
from cv2.cv import *
ImportError: numpy.core.multiarray failed to import
>>> 

System Info: OS X El Capitan, Macbook Air, 1.3 GHz Intel Core i5, 8 GB 1600 HMz DDR3

I have already attempted updating numpy. I had to add cv.py to the python2.7 folder in Spyder-Py2 is there something else I need to add?

Answer 1

upgrade numpy to the latest version

pip install numpy --upgrade