Import pandas with graphics disabled

[dabliss]

I'm running an analysis using the Sun Grid Engine.

However, in my code I import pandas, which causes this error to be raised:

import pandas as pd

: cannot connect to X server :3026.0

This is new. Until recently, I was able to import and use pandas within the SGE.

What I've gathered from some Googling and conversations with my sys admin is that pandas is trying to load graphics, and the SGE is not allowing this.

I don't want to do any plotting with pandas. I just want to use its DataFrame features.

Is there a way to load pandas with graphics disabled, so the SGE doesn't hiccup in this way?

UPDATE: This error is not raised when I use pandas version 0.18. So it was introduced by one of the more recent versions. (The version I tried that did raise the error was 0.20.)

Note, this question has been posted to stackoverflow: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44424058/import-pandas-with-graphics-disabled

[jorisvandenbossche]

Can you check with the latest version? (0.20.2, bugfix released few days ago) Because I think this was related to the clipboard imports, which should have been fixed in the meantime.

[jorisvandenbossche]

The related issues I meant are #16383 and #16288, so this should indeed be fixed in 0.20.2.

Closing, but please check that updating solves the issue, and report back it it doesn't.