Mj Cheruiyot
1 min readAug 17, 2020

Solving: import error can’t determine version for bottleneck .

Are you coming across this error while trying to import your pandas libraries?

import pandas as pd

Import Error ; can’t determine version for bottleneck

Simple!

  1. Just search anaconda prompt on your machine and do an update to your pandas packages using this command line ;
conda/pip update pandas

Some packages will be downloaded then click y to proceed for more downloads and package extraction.

After this just refresh your Jupyter notebook and see if you are experiencing the problem again.

2. Uninstall and install bottleneck

conda remove bottleneckconda install bottleneck

3.Just upgrade your pandas and bottleneck

conda update bottleneck
conda update pandas
Mj Cheruiyot

Analytics Engineer/ Data Enthusiast/ Lover of Technology