Jupyter Notebook: no module named pandas

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I've searched through other questions but have not found anything that has helped (most just suggest you do install pandas with conda or pip). In my jupyter notebook I'm trying to import pandas (import pandas as pd) but I'm getting the following error:

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pandas'

Some pertinent information:

I'm using python3
I've installed pandas using conda install pandas
My conda environment has pandas installed correctly. After activating the environment, I type python into the terminal and from there I can successfully import pandas and use it appropriately. This leads me to believe that it is an issue with my jupyter notebook.

You probably need to set your notebook to use the correct kernel, the one associate with the conda env that has `pandas` installed... — juanpa.arrivillaga, Oct 31 '17 at 19:47
@juanpa.arrivillaga it's set to the python3 kernel. I tried switching to the python2 kernel just to see what would happen and got a "kernel error" which I think is correct since this is a python3 environment. — CGul, Oct 31 '17 at 19:53
There might be multiple different issues, related to such behavior. I tried to elaborate on them here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/55119615/1438906 — wombatonfire, Mar 12 '19 at 11:00

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 01 '17 at 05:57

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You can try: which conda and which python to see the exact location where conda and python was installed and which was launched.

And try using the absolute path of conda to launch jupyter.

For example, /opt/conda/bin/jupyter notebook

answered Nov 01 '17 at 05:57

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The absolute path is literally the only thing that made it work for me! – ivanacorovic Mar 07 '19 at 02:44
I had the same issue and the problem was I had different versions of Jupyter installed. You can see this with `which -a jupyter`. If you have two different paths and the first one is not in the `conda` directory, that could be the issue. I didn't want to use the absolute path so I solved this by changing the order of elements in my $PATH. – roborg Jan 28 '20 at 14:45

Pravin Nikure · Answer 2 · 2019-03-24T12:41:01.970

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Try this for python3

sudo pip3 install pandas

edited Mar 24 '19 at 12:41

answered Mar 24 '19 at 09:56

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philshem · Answer 3 · 2020-05-05T08:21:08.003

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For me on Mac OSX, this was solved by installing jupyter using pip, rather than homebrew

pip3 install jupyter

Then the jupyter notebook has access to all python packages, including pandas.

Another option would be to install pandas inside of the jupyter notebook:

!pip install pandas

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answered May 05 '20 at 08:11

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Oct 04 '20 at 04:16

Its seems using homebrew installs for packages dependancies of home brew formulas are not handled by home brew well. Mostly path issues as installs are in different locations vs pip3, I also had tried installing pandas thru nb with !pip3, but I got errors that is was already satisfied meaning it was already installed just not importing. I uninstalled homebrew jupyterlab and used pip3 instead and all worked proper as a work around.

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered May 14 '22 at 10:39

The default kernel in jupyter notebook points the python that is different to the python used inside the terminal. You could check using which python

So the packages installed by conda lives in different place compared to the python that is used by the jupyter notebook at default.

To fix the issue, both needs to be same.

For that create a new kernel using ipykernel. syntax: python -m ipykernel install --user --name custom_name --display-name "Python (custom_name)"

After that, check the custom kernel and the path of the python used. jupyter kernel list --json

Finally, Restart the jupyter notebook. And change the kernel to the new custom_kernel.

Jupyter Notebook: no module named pandas

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