Python – Pandas: Unable to import name compatible

I

have some code, preprocess_align.py, it works perfectly on my PC, but I get ImportError when running on the server. ImportError should appear when pandas is imported. Here is the error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "get_features.py", line 12, in <module>
    import preprocess_align as prep
  File "/home/influenza/preprocess_align.py", line 7, in <module>
    import pandas as pd
  File "/home/influenza/anaconda2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pandas/__init__.py", line 42, in <module>
    from pandas.core.api import *
  File "/home/influenza/anaconda2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pandas/core/api.py", line 10, in <module>
    from pandas.core.groupby.groupby import Grouper
  File "/home/influenza/anaconda2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pandas/core/groupby/__init__.py", line 2, in <module>
    from pandas.core.groupby.groupby import (
  File "/home/influenza/anaconda2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pandas/core/groupby/groupby.py", line 16, in <module>
    from pandas import compat
ImportError: cannot import name compat

The Python version is Python 2.7.14 | Anaconda custom (64-bit), I’ve used conda update pandas to update the version to the latest.

Thanks for any help.

You didn’t tell us your version of pandas, as stated in the documentation about pandas.compat 0.25, 0.24, 0.23

Warning

The pandas.core, pandas.compat, and pandas.util top-level modules are PRIVATE. Stable functionality in such modules is not guaranteed. 

Such as 0.23
https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/version/0.23/api.html?highlight=compat

Downgrading to 0.23 seems to work for me.
You can use

it

 pip uninstall pandas
 pip install --upgrade pandas==0.23.0

At 0.24
https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/version/0.24/reference/index.html

and in steady state (now 0.25)
https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/reference/index.html?highlight=compat