Importing pandas shows ImportError: cannot import name hashtable

Question

I have installed pandas on python 3.3, and coded like this:

import csv
import pandas
from pandas import DataFrame

csvdata = pandas.read_csv(\'datafile.csv\'         


        

Answer 1

I had the same problem too when I tried installing pandas 0.13.1. It installed but I could not import it.

As @danioyuan suggests, I installed Cython using easy_install and now I am able to import pandas.

Answer 2

I encountered the same problem. I installed pandas using command pip install pandas.

By default, my pip installed pandas in dist-packages of python3.2 and my default python version was 2.7. As a result when I did python to open the interactive shell and try to do

 import pandas

 File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
 File "/usr/local/lib/python3.2/dist-packages/pandas/__init__.py", line 6, in <module>
 from . import hashtable, tslib, lib
 ImportError: cannot import name hashtable

What solved my problem was:

 python3.2
 import pandas

Please check that the you use the same Python version whose dist-packages contain pandas.

Answer 3

The pandas Python 3.3 binary here http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/ seems to have not been compiled successfully. I haven't had the time to configure my build machine to build and test Python 3.3 binaries but I do know that things work on Python 3.3 on the other platforms.

Answer 4

I have already tried all the stuff above, didn't work for me.

You can just change your version of pandas by

pip install --user pandas==0.22

only this worked for me:)

Answer 5

Update: I now recommend installing the scientific python stack using Anaconda.

Pandas comes bundled and can easily be updated using conda:

conda update pandas

It also comes bundled with cython, scipy (which is tricky to install via pip), statsmodels, and manages the dependencies/reationships between these packages for you.

It's worth emphaising that you don't need admin/sudo access to install it on the machine to install Anaconda.

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If you're not using Anaconda, the recommended way to install pandas is via pip (on Mac and Windows):

pip install pandas

On Linux you can also install with python-pandas in whichever repository, but be aware you may be installing an older version of pandas, ideally you should be using the latest stable version.

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It looks like you have tried to install from source, about which the docs mention:

Installing from the git repository requires a recent installation of Cython as the cythonized C sources are no longer checked into source control. Released source distributions will contain the built C files. I recommend installing the latest Cython via easy_install -U Cython

Note that you will not be able to import pandas if you open an interpreter in the source directory unless you build the C extensions in place:

python setup.py build_ext --inplace

Without compiling hashtables.pyx (and a few other cython files), pandas is unable to import them. These are required for pandas (which explains your error message).

Note: this error message has been made more descriptive for 0.11.1 onwards, it will say that the C-extensions were not built.