ImportError: cannot import name 'is_list_like'

Question

I need an advice and I'm new with this stuff. I try to run Yahoo! Finance Fix for Pandas Datareader.py but the result ends up like this which you can see below. Thank you in advance.

runfile('C:/Users/johannesbambang/Desktop/Yahoo! Finance Fix for Pandas Datareader.py', wdir='C:/Users/johannesbambang/Desktop') Traceback (most recent call last):

File "", line 1, in runfile('C:/Users/johannesbambang/Desktop/Yahoo! Finance Fix for Pandas Datareader.py', wdir='C:/Users/johannesbambang/Desktop')

File "C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\spyder\utils\site\sitecustomize.py", line 705, in runfile execfile(filename, namespace)

File "C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\spyder\utils\site\sitecustomize.py", line 102, in execfile exec(compile(f.read(), filename, 'exec'), namespace)

File "C:/Users/johannesbambang/Desktop/Yahoo! Finance Fix for Pandas Datareader.py", line 1, in from pandas_datareader import data as pdr

File "C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\pandas_datareader__init__.py", line 2, in from .data import (DataReader, Options, get_components_yahoo,

File "C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\pandas_datareader\data.py", line 18, in from pandas_datareader.fred import FredReader

File "C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\pandas_datareader\fred.py", line 1, in from pandas_datareader.compat import is_list_like

ImportError: cannot import name 'is_list_like'

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Answer 1

It seems you are trying to use the pandas_datareader library. Your error is because of this library's issue and will be fixed in the next release.

As is mentioned in this answer, you have to wait until the 0.7.0 version or install the development version.