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<h1><a class="reference internal" href="../classes.html#module-sklearn.datasets" title="sklearn.datasets"><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">sklearn.datasets</span></code></a>.clear_data_home<a class="headerlink" href="#sklearn-datasets-clear-data-home" title="Permalink to this heading">¶</a></h1>
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<span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">sklearn.datasets.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">clear_data_home</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">data_home</span></span><span class="o"><span class="pre">=</span></span><span class="default_value"><span class="pre">None</span></span></em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/scikit-learn/scikit-learn/blob/702316c27/sklearn/datasets/_base.py#L74"><span class="viewcode-link"><span class="pre">[source]</span></span></a><a class="headerlink" href="#sklearn.datasets.clear_data_home" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Delete all the content of the data home cache.</p>
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<dt><strong>data_home</strong><span class="classifier">str or path-like, default=None</span></dt><dd><p>The path to scikit-learn data directory. If <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">None</span></code>, the default path
is <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">~/sklearn_learn_data</span></code>.</p>
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