Pandas version checks
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Reproducible Example
# Code
import pandas as pd
df = pd.DataFrame({"Name":["Braund"]})
Issue Description
Venv
The venv is owned by root:root with 755 permissions. Pandas version 2.3.1 (but also happens with 2.2.3)
Command
/opt/.venv/bin/python /home/user.name/python_scripts/sketches.py
Traceback Message
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/user.name/python_scripts/sketches.py", line 7, in
Note: In fact, regardless of the method used, it seems to always output the same error message. I have used
Expected Behavior
No error message, and creation of a data frame.
Installed Versions
-> Replace this line with the output of pd.show_versions()
Using root privileges,
INSTALLED VERSIONS
commit : c888af6d0bb674932007623c0867e1fbd4bdc2c6 python : 3.10.12 python-bits : 64 OS : Linux OS-release : 5.15.0-142-generic Version : #152-Ubuntu SMP Mon May 19 10:54:31 UTC 2025 machine : x86_64 processor : x86_64 byteorder : little LC_ALL : None LANG : en_US.UTF-8 LOCALE : en_US.UTF-8
pandas : 2.3.1 numpy : 1.26.4 pytz : 2025.2 dateutil : 2.9.0.post0 pip : 22.0.2 Cython : None sphinx : 8.1.3 IPython : 8.35.0 adbc-driver-postgresql: None adbc-driver-sqlite : None bs4 : 4.13.3 blosc : None bottleneck : None dataframe-api-compat : None fastparquet : None fsspec : 2025.3.2 html5lib : None hypothesis : None gcsfs : None jinja2 : 3.1.6 lxml.etree : 5.3.2 matplotlib : 3.10.1 numba : 0.61.2 numexpr : None odfpy : None openpyxl : 3.1.5 pandas_gbq : None psycopg2 : None pymysql : None pyarrow : 19.0.1 pyreadstat : None pytest : 8.3.5 python-calamine : None pyxlsb : None s3fs : None scipy : 1.13.1 sqlalchemy : 2.0.40 tables : None tabulate : None xarray : None xlrd : None xlsxwriter : None zstandard : None tzdata : 2025.2 qtpy : None pyqt5 : None
Comment From: jbrockmendel
This is weird. The pandas import works but not pandas.DataFrame? What do you get from dir(pandas)?
Comment From: mroeschke
Just noting that is very likely not a pandas issue. I would suggest.
- Recreate your virtual environment with the packages you need (sharing these steps would be helpful to help diagnose)
- Making sure you have no other files named
pandas.pythat your script is importing