How to solve import error for pandas?

Question

I installed Anaconda with python 2.7.7.
However, whenever I run \"import pandas\" I get the error:
\"ImportError: C extension: y not built. If you want to impo

Answer 1

Pandas has portions of its code written in C to make it run faster. If you tried to install pandas manually you would need to build it. Try reinstalling it with miniconda package manager here: http://conda.pydata.org/miniconda.html

and then you can just do

conda install pandas

There are very simple instructions on how to do it in the link below. Just do ctrl-f miniconda to find the section that talks about it

http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/dev/install.html