title: Unable to install pandas on AWS Lambda
body: <p>I'm trying to install and run pandas on an <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/details/" rel="noreferrer">Amazon</a> Lambda instance. I've used the <a href="http://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/lambda-python-how-to-create-deployment-package.html" rel="noreferrer">recommended zip method</a> of packaging my code file <code>model_a.py</code> and related python libraries (<code>pip install pandas -t /path/to/dir/</code>) and uploaded the zip to Lambda. When I try to run a test, this is the error message I get:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>Unable to import module 'model_a': C extension:
    /var/task/pandas/hashtable.so: undefined symbol: PyFPE_jbuf not built.
    If you want to import pandas from the source directory, you may need
    to run 'python setup.py build_ext --inplace' to build the C extensions
    first.</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>Looks like an error in a variable defined in hashtable.so that comes with the pandas installer. Googling for this did not turn up any relevant articles. There were some references to a failure in <code>numpy</code> installation but nothing concrete. Would appreciate any help in troubleshooting this! Thanks.</p>