DOC: ImportError: No module named pandas

[datapythonista]

Looks like #11604 is our most visited page on GitHub after the home (it's got half of the visits of the home, see "Popular content" in https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/graphs/traffic).

Someone recommended sudo pip3 install pandas, and I guess a person having that error will google it, read that issue and end up running that, which is not great.

I think we should have somewhere on the documentation information about that error, and give better information about the issue. And recommend using conda, discouraging pip, and creating an environment.

[datapythonista]

I added a comment in the description of the issue for now. But I guess we still want to have this in the documentation.

[TomAugspurger]

I edited all the posts saying to use "sudo pip install" :)

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[santhisenan]

The link https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/graphs/traffic in the issue description takes me to my GitHub dashboard.

[gonemad97]

Is this issue still open? If it is, I'd like to work on it. Could I get a clearer picture of the requirement right now?

[datapythonista]

@gonemad97 feel free to work on this. The idea is to show somewhere in the documentation what's the solution when the ImportError mentioned happens. The linked issue has now a solution that should explain what's the best option.

This can be a bit tricky, but if you are looking for something to work on, you can also have a look at #27977. Or may be @martinagvilas and @galuhsahid can help you find a more specific task.

[MarcoGorelli]

@execptionerror could you please stop making new sock puppet account in order to spam your website (some of whose "solutions" aren't even correct) on closed issues every day?

Thanks 🙏