How to solve import error for pandas using iPython Notebook on Windows?

Question

I\'m trying to import pandas while using iPython. My overall purpose is to use XLwings.

I\'m on Windows 7 and have used Anaconda to install Python, pandas and all t

Answer 1

I found while installing packages (most from Christoph Gohlke), sometimes you have to use "pip install name of .whl" (in proper path to package) and initially adding a "C:/miscutilities" to Environmental Variables PATH if it wouldn't install from the Anaconda -> Lib -> site-packages. Then some other packages I used conda.

Answer 2

As posted by Jeff in the comments:

There is a bug in older versions (of conda) where if you had updated pandas WHILE it was being used it didn't update correctly. Try closing all python processes, then

conda remove pandas

conda install pandas