ImportError: cannot import name 'parse_time_string' from 'pandas.core.tools.datetimes'

[emiliom]

I just built a conda environment today with erddapy and pandas, among other things. No version pinning at all. Python 3.8.5, pandas 1.1.0, erddapy 0.5.3. Just importing erddapy produces the pandas error below.

Same issue when I built the conda env while pinning Python to 3.7.

Any suggestions for pinning a specific version of Pandas, erddapy or both to get past this issue? Thanks!

~/miniconda/envs/nvsgliderapp/lib/python3.8/site-packages/erddapy/__init__.py in <module>
----> 1 from erddapy.erddapy import ERDDAP, servers
      2 
      3 __all__ = ["ERDDAP", "servers"]
      4 
      5 from ._version import get_versions

~/miniconda/envs/nvsgliderapp/lib/python3.8/site-packages/erddapy/erddapy.py in <module>
     13 import pandas as pd
     14 
---> 15 from erddapy.utilities import (
     16     _check_url_response,
     17     _tempnc,

~/miniconda/envs/nvsgliderapp/lib/python3.8/site-packages/erddapy/utilities.py in <module>
     11 import pytz
     12 import requests
---> 13 from pandas.core.tools.datetimes import parse_time_string
     14 
     15 _server = namedtuple("server", ["description", "url"])

ImportError: cannot import name 'parse_time_string' from 'pandas.core.tools.datetimes' (/home/mayorga/miniconda/envs/nvsgliderapp/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pandas/core/tools/datetimes.py)

[emiliom]

FYI, I tried to find on what version pandas.core.tools.datetimes.parse_time_string was deprecated, but couldn't find it. What I was able to do is confirm that it's present in pandas 1.0.1, so I'm going with that (pinning my conda env to that pandas version).

This statement from the pandas API docs is worth noting:

Warning
The pandas.core, pandas.compat, and pandas.util top-level modules are PRIVATE. Stable functionality in such modules is not guaranteed.