Using pandas library without bz2 (No root access, can't install bz2)

Question

I am trying to run a python code which uses pandas library. I am getting an error saying that bz2 can not be found. I do not have root access and can not install anything. Is there a way to use pandas in another way? There are similar questions to mine in stackoverflow but they require root access to install bz2.

Importing pandas (Python 3.8.3, CentOS Linux release 7.6.1810 (Core)):

import pandas as pd

output:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "tmp.py", line 1, in <module>
    import pandas as pd
  File "/home/myusername/src/dataprocessing/.venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pandas/__init__.py", line 22, in <module>
    from pandas.compat import is_numpy_dev as _is_numpy_dev  # pyright: ignore # noqa:F401
  File "/home/myusername/src/dataprocessing/.venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pandas/compat/__init__.py", line 24, in <module>
    import pandas.compat.compressors
  File "/home/myusername/src/dataprocessing/.venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pandas/compat/compressors.py", line 7, in <module>
    import bz2
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'bz2'

Answer 1

If bz2 is not mandatory, you can try to catch the exception:

try:
    import pandas as pd
except ModuleNotFoundError as err:
    print(err)

Update

You can also copy bz2.py module from GitHub

Answer 2

bz2 might not exist if Python hasn't been built to include it.

It's definitely a hack, but you could create a dummy empty bz2.py in your working directory, and hope Pandas doesn't need to access any attributes from it at import time.