ImportError: No module named geopandas

Question

I just ran this code and got this error, I'm not sure why:

%matplotlib inline
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import seaborn as sns
import pandas as pd
import pysal as ps
import geopandas as gpd
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as pet

ImportError: No module named geopandas

Answer 1

You might encounter this problem even if geopandas is correctly installed in your active environment. Your problem might be related to ipython not being installed in the environment you installed geopandas in. In this case ipython from outside of the environment is used and will find no module named geopandas resulting in a ImportError.

Assuming a Linux OS:

• You can check which ipython is used with where ipython.
• You can install ìpython in your active environment by executing conda install ipython.

Answer 2

If you have any trouble installing GeoPandas, just follow the below steps:

⦁ Go to Unofficial Windows Binaries for Python Extension Packages. (https://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/)

⦁ Download the following binaries in a specifi folder in your laptop/PC:

GDAL,

Pyproj,

Fiona,

Shapely &

Geopandas

matching the version of Python, and whether the 32-bit or 64-bit OS is installed on your laptop. (E.g. for Python v3.8x (64-bit), GDAL package should be GDAL-3.3.2-cp38-cp38-win_amd64.whl)

Go to the folder where the binaries are downloaded in the command prompt window. (C:\Users\abc\GeoPandas dependencies) Order of execution of the following commands matter.

pip install .\GDAL-3.3.2-cp38-cp38-win_amd64.whl

pip install .\pyproj-3.2.0-cp38-cp38-win_amd64.whl

pip install .\Fiona-1.8.20-cp38-cp38-win_amd64.whl

pip install .\Shapely-1.7.1-cp38-cp38-win_amd64.whl

pip install .\geopandas-0.9.0-py3-none-any.whl

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