pandas-dev installation (How to install Pandas 1.3.0)

Question

I've seen that on Pandas version 1.3.0.dev0+1779.gdcc2a8f801 there is a new implemented method (read_xml) and I would like to use it. The problem is that I have not found a way to install a development version of Pandas. i am currently using Python3 and pip and have tried from its source repository (Pandas-dev page)

How could I deal with that? Maybe using Conda or compiling it myself? I don't know exactcly how to do it...

Answer 1

You can use pip:

pip install git+https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas.git

If you are using a jupyter notebook, just run:

!pip install git+https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas.git

it will install the last version:

Collecting git+https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas.git
  Cloning https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas.git to /tmp/pip-req-build-lpoyr70w
  Installing build dependencies ... done
  Getting requirements to build wheel ... done
    Preparing wheel metadata ... done
Successfully built pandas
Installing collected packages: pandas
  Attempting uninstall: pandas
    Found existing installation: pandas 1.2.5
    Uninstalling pandas-1.2.5:
      Successfully uninstalled pandas-1.2.5
Successfully installed pandas-1.4.0.dev0+108.gfa6b96e128

If you want a specific version, just add at the end @ and choose a commit checkout you want.

Answer 2

Pip would not have this release with it and there are no binaries given with that version of Pandas yet so I would recommend building it from source.

You can go here and download the source code, extract it and then build it.

The instructions to build it are given here.