Problems with installing packages with Anaconda

Question

I tried installing pandas_datareader in Anaconda using conda install -c anaconda pandas-datareader . It gives me this result:

Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "C:\Users\Peter\Anaconda3\lib\site.py", line 168, in addpackage
      exec(line)
    File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
  ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pywin32_bootstrap'

Remainder of file ignored
Error processing line 7 of C:\Users\Peter\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\pywin32.pth:

  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "C:\Users\Peter\Anaconda3\lib\site.py", line 168, in addpackage
      exec(line)
    File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
  ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pywin32_bootstrap'

Remainder of file ignored

Okay, bad luck I thought, and I tried installing something else (plotly). And this gave me exactly the same result.

Answer 1

Try:

conda remove [-c anaconda] pywin32
conda install -c anaconda pywin32

Code in brakets is not necessary.

This should reinstall pywin32. And go for another try. It worked for me using pip.