cython not found when building from source

This is when running on current master. Might there be some other prereqs missing? Thanks

$ cython --version
Cython version 0.17.4
$ python setup.py build
running build
running build_py
copying pandas/version.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/pandas
running build_ext
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "setup.py", line 516, in <module>
    **setuptools_kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/core.py", line 152, in setup
    dist.run_commands()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py", line 953, in run_commands
    self.run_command(cmd)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py", line 972, in run_command
    cmd_obj.run()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/command/build.py", line 128, in run
    self.run_command(cmd_name)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/cmd.py", line 326, in run_command
    self.distribution.run_command(command)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py", line 972, in run_command
    cmd_obj.run()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/command/build_ext.py", line 339, in run
    self.build_extensions()
  File "setup.py", line 328, in build_extensions
    self.check_cython_extensions(self.extensions)
  File "setup.py", line 325, in check_cython_extensions
    """ % src)
Exception: Cython-generated file 'pandas/parser.c' not found.
                Cython is required to compile pandas from a development branch.
                Please install Cython or download a release package of pandas.

[gliptak]

@cpcloud

$ ci/print_versions.py 

INSTALLED VERSIONS
------------------
Python: 2.7.4.final.0
OS: Linux 3.8.0-23-generic #34-Ubuntu SMP Wed May 29 20:22:58 UTC 2013 x86_64
LC_ALL: None
LANG: en_US.UTF-8

Cython: Not installed
Numpy: 1.7.1
Scipy: 0.12.0
...

It is a Virtualenv, and it was not seeing the “global” cython.

I run pip install cython, and that corrected it.

Thank you for the pointers.

[shohamtal]

pip install cython didn’t help in my case (I was using python 3.9.4) Switched to Python 3.7.0 and the problem fixed