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

I was unable to upgrade pandas with regular

pip install --upgrade pandas 

"tensorflow 1.6.0 has requirement numpy>=1.13.3, but you'll have numpy 1.13.1 which is incompatible."

However bumping it with:

pip install --upgrade pandas --force

solved issue completely