“Have you tried turning it off and on again?” (Roy of The IT crowd)
This happened to me today, which is why I ended up to this page. Seeing that error was weird since, recently, I have not made any changes in my Python environment. Interestingly, I observed that if I open a new notebook and import pandas
I would not get the same error message. So, I did shutdown
the troublesome notebook and started it again and voila it is working again!
Even though this solved the problem (at least for me), I cannot readily come up with an explanation as to why it happened in the first place!