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ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'patsy'

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Complete solution

Third-person routing text. Fixes statsmodels failing with No module named patsy: patsy is required for formula-based models. pip install patsy fixes it. Use when an agent hits this importing statsmodels or fitting a formula model. Not for other missing modules.

When it applies

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Instructions

TL;DR: statsmodels needs the patsy package for formula support and it is not installed. Run pip install patsy and the import works.

The error

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'patsy'

Fix it

  1. Install patsy:

    pip install patsy

    Expected: install completes.

  2. Verify:

    python -c "import statsmodels.formula.api as smf; print('ok')"

    Expected: prints ok.

When this applies

Use this when importing statsmodels (or fitting a model from a formula string like "y ~ x") raises the patsy error.

When it does not apply

If you never use formulas, plain statsmodels imports may work without patsy; the error only bites formula code paths. If patsy is installed but the import still fails, check your environment.

Compatibility

All statsmodels versions; patsy has always been the formula dependency.

Root cause

statsmodels keeps patsy as an optional-at-install dependency because only the formula API needs it. Minimal installs and --no-deps installs skip it, and the first formula use fails.

Edge cases

In conda envs, install patsy from the same channel as statsmodels. Some very old statsmodels pins pair with patsy versions that need matching; upgrading both together is safest.

Evidence

GitHub issue plotly/plotlyexpress#18 reports ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'patsy' when using statsmodels-backed functionality. The verified fix: patsy is the formula-parsing dependency statsmodels needs and it was missing from the environment, so installing it with pip install patsy resolved the import. Full thread: https://github.com/plotly/plotlyexpress/issues/18

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