error while installing pandas on ubuntu 14

Question

I am trying to install pandas on my ubuntu machine.

I am using this command

sudo pip install pandas

I am getting the following error

 Downloading pandas-0.25.1.tar.gz (12.6MB): 12.6MB downloaded
  Running setup.py (path:/tmp/pip_build_root/pandas/setup.py) egg_info for package pandas
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 17, in <module>
      File "/tmp/pip_build_root/pandas/setup.py", line 21, in <module>
        import versioneer
      File "versioneer.py", line 1629
        print("Adding sample versioneer config to setup.cfg", file=sys.stderr)
                                                                  ^
    SyntaxError: invalid syntax
    Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
    Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "<string>", line 17, in <module>

  File "/tmp/pip_build_root/pandas/setup.py", line 21, in <module>

    import versioneer

  File "versioneer.py", line 1629

    print("Adding sample versioneer config to setup.cfg", file=sys.stderr)

                                                              ^

SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Can any one please help me with this.

Answer 1

print("Adding sample versioneer config to setup.cfg", file=sys.stderr)

It is a Python 3 syntax.

• First install Python 3 .

• Then run sudo pip3 install pandas or python3 -m pip install pandas .