Error when trying to import from Database with Pandas and SQLAlchemy

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I am using portable python 2.7.6.1 and I want to import a query from an oracle database into python pandas. I have searched a couple of examples and came up with the following code: ``` from sqlalchemy import create_engine import pandas as pd engine = create_engine('oracle://user:pass@host:port/schema', echo=False) df = pd.read_sql('select * from databasetable', engine, index_col = index) print df.describe() ``` The program stops at the 'pd.read_sql'-statement with this Error Message: ``` AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'read_sql' ``` The Database connection is working and according to the examples this code should work. Can anyone help?

Accepted Answer

The pandas module imports read_sql from a submodule; you could try getting it from the submodule:

```
df = pd.io.sql.read_sql('select * from databasetable', engine, index_col = index)
```

You could also print `pd.__dict__` to see what's available in the `pd` module. Do you get `AttributeError` if you try to use other things from the `pd` module, for example, `pd.Series()`?

Error when trying to import from Database with Pandas and SQLAlchemy

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