I've seen that on Pandas version 1.3.0.dev0+1779.gdcc2a8f801 there is a new implemented method (read_xml) and I would like to use it. The problem is that I have not found a way to install a development version of Pandas. i am currently using Python3 and pip and have tried from its source repository (Pandas-dev page)
How could I deal with that? Maybe using Conda or compiling it myself? I don't know exactcly how to do it...
You can use pip:
pip install git+https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas.git
If you are using a jupyter notebook, just run:
!pip install git+https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas.git
it will install the last version:
Collecting git+https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas.git
Cloning https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas.git to /tmp/pip-req-build-lpoyr70w
Installing build dependencies ... done
Getting requirements to build wheel ... done
Preparing wheel metadata ... done
Successfully built pandas
Installing collected packages: pandas
Attempting uninstall: pandas
Found existing installation: pandas 1.2.5
Uninstalling pandas-1.2.5:
Successfully uninstalled pandas-1.2.5
Successfully installed pandas-1.4.0.dev0+108.gfa6b96e128
If you want a specific version, just add at the end @ and choose a commit checkout you want.
Pip would not have this release with it and there are no binaries given with that version of Pandas yet so I would recommend building it from source.
You can go here and download the source code, extract it and then build it.
The instructions to build it are given here.
You can install the latest dev release of pandas with:
pip install git+https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas