Help fixing the pandas error

Question

I am unable to import pandas library even after uninstalling and installing python 3.7.1.
Getting the below error - 

ImportError: C extension: No module named 'parsing' not built. If you want to import pandas from the source directory, you may need to run 'python setup.py build_ext --inplace --force' to build the C extensions first.

Please let me know how this can be fixed.

Answer 1

Try this:

Uninstall python with admin privileges.

Shut down your system.

Restart it.

Then, install python with admin privileges.

Add python to path by selecting the option during installation.

Once installation finishes:

Open a command prompt with admin privileges and then execute:

pip install numpy

pip install pandas

pip install matplotlib

pip install scikit-learn

After that, you will be able to import pandas.

Comments

>>> pip install numpy
  File "<stdin>", line 1
    pip install numpy
        ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>>>

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Hi, @There,

pip is run from the command line, not the Python interpreter. It is a program that installs modules, so you can use them from Python.

The Python shell is not a command line, it is an interactive interpreter. You type Python code into it, not commands.