How to Install Zipline on Google Colab

Question

!apt-get install libatlas-base-dev python-dev gfortran pkg-config libfreetype6-dev hdf5-tools

!pip install zipline

!pip install zipline ingest

!pip uninstall pandas
!pip install --upgrade pandas==0.23.0

%load_ext zipline

I have following issue:

ValueError: index must be monotonic increasing or decreasing

after adding cuperto suggested (!pip install pandas==0.22.0), I got this error:

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any suggestion?

Answer 1

Trying to run Zipline on Google Colab, I ran into the exact same problem.

I believe the problem comes from the fact that zipline 1.4.1 has requirement pandas<=0.22,>=0.18.1

So I installed an older version of pandas and it worked:

!pip install pandas==0.22.0