I meet this error and I found a method to solve it. My pandas and pandas_datareader versions are 0.23 and 0.6.
Python 3.6.5 (default, Apr 1 2018, 05:46:30) [GCC 7.3.0] on linux Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import pandas_datareader Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/pandas_datareader/__init__.py", line 2, in <module> from .data import (DataReader, Options, get_components_yahoo, File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/pandas_datareader/data.py", line 14, in <module> from pandas_datareader.fred import FredReader File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/pandas_datareader/fred.py", line 1, in <module> from pandas.core.common import is_list_like ImportError: cannot import name 'is_list_like'
Because the is_list_like
is moved to pandas.api.types, I change the fred.py file which is highlighted in the picture. I replace from pandas.core.common import is_list_like
with from pandas.api.types import is_list_like
, and it works.