After asking this question, I installed environments for both python 2.7 and python 3.5: Easiest way to have Python 2 and 3 coexist on Mac OSX 10.8 with Anaconda installed
i also manually installed kernels for both python versions. If I start in my terminal the py35 environment (source activate py35) and then ipython notebook, i can choose a kernel that lets me use either python 2.7 or python 3.5.
Up to this point, everything is good.
However, when I run a check of all the modules I'm going to need, including ipython, numpy, scipy, pandas, scikitlearn, etc...using commands such as:
import pandas
print("Pandas version: %6.6s " % pandas.__version__)
the notebook crashes when it gets to pandas, even though I checked manually with conda list and pandas is indeed installed and updated to the last version.
What's interesting is that if i run the same checks using the python 2.7 kernel, everything runs smoothly, including the pandas command.
What's going on?
EDIT: Here's the kind of feedback I get upon crashing:
ValueError Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-2-3b71b0be8baa> in <module>()
12
13 # Pandas makes working with data tables easier
---> 14 import pandas
15 print("Pandas version: %6.6s (need at least 0.16.2)" % pandas.__version__)
16
then more of that...and at the very end:
ValueError: unknown locale: UTF-8
