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Python Introduction to pandas Exploring pandas Combining DataFrames

Jonathan Grieve
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Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,252 Points
Posted by Jonathan Grieve
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,252 Points

cannot import utils render module

Trying to follow along with this note and my editor keeps telling me there's an error and cannot find the Python Utils render module.

I'm probably doing this the wrong way but I like to follow along with the code in VS Code and can't find the error on google. Help! :-)

from utils import render

$ python dataframes-combine.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "dataframes-combine.py", line 7, in <module>
    from utils import render
ImportError: cannot import name 'render'

2 Answers

Michael Hulet
Michael Hulet
47,912 Points
Michael Hulet
Michael Hulet
47,912 Points

This looks like it's a file that Treehouse made that automatically loads from their GitHub repository in Binder. You can find the file itself here and the repository it's in on GitHub

Jonathan Grieve
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,252 Points
Jonathan Grieve
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,252 Points

Thanks Michael, so it's not an official Python module as I was previously thinking? No wonder I was only finding brick walls. :)

Michael Hulet
Michael Hulet
47,912 Points
Michael Hulet
Michael Hulet
47,912 Points

Nope, this is a Treehouse-specific thing, in this case, hence why Google wasn't being nearly as helpful as usual 😅

Peng Ren
Peng Ren
4,119 Points

after i downloaded the file how where should i save it on my mac so my jupyter notebook can recognize it?

Barry Snowe
Barry Snowe
51,277 Points
Barry Snowe
Barry Snowe
51,277 Points

Not to put too fine a point on it, but if you aren't using Binder there is no need to include that import. So for example, I'm following along in a Jupyter Notebook and it handles the rendering natively. You might also find fun extensions for VS Code that will implement that notebook-style interactivity.

Ave Nurme
Ave Nurme
20,907 Points

It's an old post here but I am currently taking the Pandas course and also bumped into the same error. Barry's suggestion works as I, as well, follow along in a Jupyter Notebook (I have Anaconda installed on my computer).

In the code at Github there were these lines:

for label, value in balances.items():
    render("The label {} has a value of {}".format(label, value))

So here, I just substituted 'render' with 'print' and everything worked.