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 import pandas from the source directory, you may need to run 'python setup.py build_ext --inplace' to build the C extensions first."
I tried running the suggested command but it stated that
skipping 'pandas\index.c' Cython extension (up-to-date)
skipping 'pandas\src\period.c' Cython extension (up-to-date)
skipping 'pandas\algos.c' Cython extension (up-to-date)
skipping 'pandas\lib.c' Cython extension (up-to-date)
skipping 'pandas\tslib.c' Cython extension (up-to-date)
skipping 'pandas\parser.c' Cython extension (up-to-date)
skipping 'pandas\hashtable.c' Cython extension (up-to-date)
skipping 'pandas\src\sparse.c' Cython extension (up-to-date)
skipping 'pandas\src\testing.c' Cython extension (up-to-date)
skipping 'pandas\msgpack.cpp' Cython extension (up-to-date)
Has anyone encountered this before and found a solution?
I was having the same problem now with Python 3.4.3.
I was using pandas-0.18.0.
Upgrading (using pip) solved the issue for me:
[sudo] pip install --upgrade pandas
The final result of the upgrade:
Successfully installed numpy-1.13.3 pandas-0.21.0 python-dateutil-2.6.1 pytz-2017.3 six-1.11.0
After this, the issue was gone!