The accuracy (mean correct classification) score is called
zero_one_score in scikit-learn:

https://github.com/scikit-learn/scikit-learn/blob/master/sklearn/metrics/metrics.py#L651

If your data is imbalanced then the accuracy will likely to be
artificially high. For instance if you have 95% of negative examples
and 5% of positive example, a dummy model always predicting "-1" will
get 95% accuracy. That's why it's better to use f1_score or the Area
under ROC for such cases.

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