From 0a5716baebf945864bc7a57e0192ac6015cc23af Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: mmcky <mamckay@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 20 May 2024 12:10:57 +1000
Subject: [PATCH] hide cell and add comment

---
 lectures/inflation_history.md | 11 +++--------
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lectures/inflation_history.md b/lectures/inflation_history.md
index 57da745f..afb36a85 100644
--- a/lectures/inflation_history.md
+++ b/lectures/inflation_history.md
@@ -24,19 +24,14 @@ The `xlrd` package is used by `pandas` to perform operations on Excel files.
 !pip install xlrd
 ```
 
-This lecture also requires `pandas >= 2.1.4`
+<!-- Check for pandas>=2.1.4 for Google Collab Compat -->
 
 ```{code-cell} ipython3
-:tags: [hide-output]
+:tags: [hide-cell]
 from importlib.metadata import version
 from packaging.version import Version
 
-try:
-    pandas_version = version("pandas")
-except:
-    pandas_version = '0.0.0'
-
-if Version(pandas_version) < Version('2.1.4'):
+if Version(version("pandas")) < Version('2.1.4'):
     !pip install "pandas>=2.1.4"
 ```