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ImportError: C extension: No module named 'parsing' not built

I have been trying to find a solution to this import error regarding the pandas library when it says no module named "parsing." Every library should be installed correctly from the interpreter and they are all the latest version.

This is what the console returns:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\shaya\PycharmProjects\NEA\venv\lib\site-packages\pandas\__init__.py", line 26, in <module>
    from pandas._libs import (hashtable as _hashtable,
  File "C:\Users\shaya\PycharmProjects\NEA\venv\lib\site-packages\pandas\_libs\__init__.py", line 4, in <module>
from .tslib import iNaT, NaT, Timestamp, Timedelta, OutOfBoundsDatetime
  File "pandas\_libs\tslibs\conversion.pxd", line 11, in init pandas._libs.tslib
  File "pandas\_libs\tslibs\conversion.pyx", line 40, in init pandas._libs.tslibs.conversion
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'parsing'

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:/Users/shaya/PycharmProjects/NEA/Main.py", line 4, in <module>
import pandas_datareader.data as data
  File "C:\Users\shaya\PycharmProjects\NEA\venv\lib\site-packages\pandas_datareader\__init__.py", line 2, in <module>
from .data import (DataReader, Options, get_components_yahoo,
  File "C:\Users\shaya\PycharmProjects\NEA\venv\lib\site-packages\pandas_datareader\data.py", line 7, in <module>
from pandas_datareader.av.forex import AVForexReader
  File "C:\Users\shaya\PycharmProjects\NEA\venv\lib\site-packages\pandas_datareader\av\__init__.py", line 3, in <module>
from pandas_datareader.base import _BaseReader
  File "C:\Users\shaya\PycharmProjects\NEA\venv\lib\site-packages\pandas_datareader\base.py", line 7, in <module>
import pandas.compat as compat
  File "C:\Users\shaya\PycharmProjects\NEA\venv\lib\site-packages\pandas\__init__.py", line 35, in <module>
"the C extensions first.".format(module))
ImportError: C extension: No module named 'parsing' not built. If you want to import pandas from the source directory, you may need to run 'python setup.py build_ext --inplace --force' to build the C extensions first.

All of the above tracebacks are from PyCharm.

OS: Windows. I am using pip to install packages Python version: 3.7.1, panda version: 0.23.4

Solution

  • Do you have python added to path? To test this; open a cmd and type python. If it is on your path, you should see the version of python you are running (Assuming you are using a windows machine). If this is the case, you can simply run the command after you checked this. If not, please navigate to the location where Python is installed, open python.exe and try to run the command python setup.py build_ext --inplace --force

    If this doesn't work, you should try to re-install pandas by pip install --upgrade --force-reinstall pandas

    If this also fails you could also go rigourous, and simply create a new environment and install pandas there. Sidenote: It is probably better to install pandas by using conda package manager, Pandas has portions of its code written in C to make it run faster. If you tried to install pandas manually you would need to build it.