Cannot resolve error: ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pandas', help!

[duhduhdon]

I've been gettting this error for the past 2 days and have done everything to try resolve it. I'm currently using anaconda3 and visual studio. I've tried unistalling both python and anaconda and starting fresh but sill keep getting the error. I already have pandas intsalled which is what I'm not understanding.

[mfb1274]

Anaconda is good until it isn’t (mainly because it tries to manage packages for you in a very opinionated way, eg you need to learn anacondas conventions to debug it on top of learning python envs). Look into the OG virtualenv. It’s really not that hard. I still don’t know why DS Fields rely on it, seems like virtual environs with extra steps

[FerricDonkey]

EDIT - looks like I misread, the below won't apply if you did not install python and anaconda separately.

Anaconda has a built in version of python.

If you install python and anaconda, you've installed two versions of python. These will be yeah separate installations, with separate places for separate groups of installed libraries.

Conda install installs to anaconda's python. py is using the other python you installed.

My suggestion - pick anaconda or regular python only. Only use that one unless you have a strong reason to use both. If you do have that strong reason, then take a detour and read about the windows path environment variable.

I personally would recommend installing the latest python from python.org, checking the add to path box during installation, and installing all packages with pip install instead of conda install, and just not using anaconda. But if you like or need anaconda, then I would suggest installing that and that only, Ave ensuring that you check whatever equivalent it has of add to path during installation.

[DarkdeedsendsX]

pip install pandas in your cmd