AttributeError: module 'typing' has no attribute 're' in pandas Python 3.7

Question

I can't import pd from pandas because i have this error. I search on google but I didn't find the fix for this..

>>> import pandas
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "C:\Python37\lib\site-packages\pandas\__init__.py", line 23, in <module>
    from pandas.compat.numpy import *
  File "C:\Python37\lib\site-packages\pandas\compat\__init__.py", line 431, in <module>
    re_type = typing.re.Pattern
AttributeError: module 'typing' has no attribute 're'

Possible duplicate of [How do I get python to import pandas?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37557174/how-do-i-get-python-to-import-pandas) — Joao Vitorino, Jul 09 '18 at 12:54
Sir I'm using Python 3.7 but the link you gave is for Python 3.5.. For the mean time I use Python 3.6 to make it work — CrasherTnT, Jul 09 '18 at 13:02
This has nothing to do with your pandas installation and everything to do with having a recent enough version of Python so that the typing package has a `re` module. — mlissner, May 12 '21 at 07:13

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered May 18 '21 at 22:24

I think this is changing underneath us as Python's typing module matures, but in our case, the issue was that we did from Typing import re, and then later did something like:

def funct(some_re: re.Pattern):

The fix was dumb. Simply change your import to be from typing import Pattern and then do:

def funct(some_re: Pattern):

Bleh. Warts.

AttributeError: module 'typing' has no attribute 're' in pandas Python 3.7

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