How to install python dependency when using google-cloud-ml-engine notebook?

Question

I am on google-cloud-ml notebook. Trying to install pandas_ml in order to import it.

I read https://cloud.google.com/ml-engine/docs/notebooks/dependencies tried both options (terminal and a separate installation notebook). None of those solutions work for me

#either
pip install pandas_ml #terminal
#or
!pip install pandas_ml #notebook

Answer 1

Solved! since I'm using Python 3.5 I had to use pip3 instead of pip

Answer 2

!pip will install your packages on the system level and not in your notebook kernel. Try this instead:

import sys
!{sys.executable} -m pip3 install pandas_ml

Eventually, Google MLE notebooks will support %pip .

More information can be found on Jake VanderPlas's blog: Installing Python Packages from a Jupyter Notebook .