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Importing Pandas gives error AttributeError: module 'pandas' has no attribute 'core' in iPython Notebook


I am running a iPython notebook via the Anaconda Navigator app (version 1.1.0). When I want to import pandas it gives me a strange error. I thought the Anaconda app included the pandas package?

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AttributeError                            Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-4-af55e7023913> in <module>()
----> 1 import pandas as pd

/Users/bertcarremans/anaconda/lib/python3.5/site-packages/pandas/__init__.py in <module>()
 37 import pandas.core.config_init
 38 
---> 39 from pandas.core.api import *
 40 from pandas.sparse.api import *
 41 from pandas.stats.api import *

/Users/bertcarremans/anaconda/lib/python3.5/site-packages/pandas/core/api.py in <module>()
  8 from pandas.core.common import isnull, notnull
  9 from pandas.core.categorical import Categorical
---> 10 from pandas.core.groupby import Grouper
 11 from pandas.core.format import set_eng_float_format
 12 from pandas.core.index import (Index, CategoricalIndex, Int64Index,

/Users/bertcarremans/anaconda/lib/python3.5/site-packages/pandas/core/groupby.py in <module>()
 16                               DataError, SpecificationError)
 17 from pandas.core.categorical import Categorical
---> 18 from pandas.core.frame import DataFrame
 19 from pandas.core.generic import NDFrame
 20 from pandas.core.index import (Index, MultiIndex, CategoricalIndex,

/Users/bertcarremans/anaconda/lib/python3.5/site-packages/pandas/core/frame.py in <module>()
 37                                    create_block_manager_from_arrays,
 38                                    create_block_manager_from_blocks)
---> 39 from pandas.core.series import Series
 40 from pandas.core.categorical import Categorical
 41 import pandas.computation.expressions as expressions

/Users/bertcarremans/anaconda/lib/python3.5/site-packages/pandas/core/series.py in <module>()
 33 from pandas.core.internals import SingleBlockManager
 34 from pandas.core.categorical import Categorical, CategoricalAccessor
---> 35 import pandas.core.strings as strings
 36 from pandas.tseries.common import (maybe_to_datetimelike,
 37                                    CombinedDatetimelikeProperties)

AttributeError: module 'pandas' has no attribute 'core'

Solution

  • Apparently the error I got when trying to import pandas for the first time was ValueError: unknown locale: UTF-8

    Trying to import again afterwards, gave another error as described in my question above.

    I found the solution to solve the ValueError on IPython Notebook locale error

    After updating my bash profile, the error AttributeError: module 'pandas' has no attribute 'core' did not appear anymore.