diff --git a/Project.toml b/Project.toml
index e49ab529..b18e8b49 100644
--- a/Project.toml
+++ b/Project.toml
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ UnsafePointers = "e17b2a0c-0bdf-430a-bd0c-3a23cae4ff39"
 [compat]
 Aqua = "0 - 999"
 CondaPkg = "0.2.23"
+DataFrames = "1.7.0"
 Dates = "1"
 Libdl = "1"
 MacroTools = "0.5"
@@ -35,8 +36,10 @@ julia = "1.6.1"
 
 [extras]
 Aqua = "4c88cf16-eb10-579e-8560-4a9242c79595"
+CondaPkg = "992eb4ea-22a4-4c89-a5bb-47a3300528ab"
+DataFrames = "a93c6f00-e57d-5684-b7b6-d8193f3e46c0"
 Test = "8dfed614-e22c-5e08-85e1-65c5234f0b40"
 TestItemRunner = "f8b46487-2199-4994-9208-9a1283c18c0a"
 
 [targets]
-test = ["Aqua", "Test", "TestItemRunner"]
+test = ["Aqua", "CondaPkg", "DataFrames", "Test", "TestItemRunner"]
diff --git a/test/Compat.jl b/test/Compat.jl
index 16b3e65a..0b3fc312 100644
--- a/test/Compat.jl
+++ b/test/Compat.jl
@@ -79,11 +79,14 @@ end
 end
 
 @testitem "Tables.jl" begin
+    using CondaPkg
+    CondaPkg.add("pandas")
+    
     @testset "pytable" begin
         x = (x = [1, 2, 3], y = ["a", "b", "c"])
         # pandas
-        # TODO: install pandas and test properly
-        @test_throws PyException pytable(x, :pandas)
+        t = pytable(x, :pandas)
+        @test pyconvert.(Int, Tuple(t.shape)) == (3, 2)
         # columns
         y = pytable(x, :columns)
         @test pyeq(Bool, y, pydict(x = [1, 2, 3], y = ["a", "b", "c"]))
diff --git a/test/Wrap.jl b/test/Wrap.jl
index fe8659e3..cc72fbb8 100644
--- a/test/Wrap.jl
+++ b/test/Wrap.jl
@@ -432,24 +432,26 @@ end
 
 @testitem "PyPandasDataFrame" begin
     using Tables
+    using DataFrames
+    using CondaPkg
+    CondaPkg.add("pandas")
     @test PyPandasDataFrame isa Type
-    # TODO: figure out how to get pandas into the test environment
-    # for now use some dummy type and take advantage of the fact that the code doesn't actually check it's a real dataframe
-    @pyexec """
-    class DataFrame:
-        def __init__(self, **kw):
-            self.__dict__.update(kw)
-    """ => DataFrame
-    df = DataFrame(shape = (4, 3), columns = pylist(["foo", "bar", "baz"]))
-    x = PyPandasDataFrame(df)
+    x = (x = [1, 2, 3], y = ["a", "b", "c"])
+    py_df = pytable(x, :pandas)
+    @test Tables.istable(PyTable(py_df))
+    df = DataFrame(PyTable(py_df))
+    @test df == DataFrame(x = [1, 2, 3], y = ["a", "b", "c"])
+
+    x = PyPandasDataFrame(py_df)
+    df = DataFrame(x)
+    @test df == DataFrame(x = [1, 2, 3], y = ["a", "b", "c"])
     @test ispy(x)
-    @test Py(x) === df
     @test Tables.istable(x)
     @test Tables.columnaccess(x)
-    @test_throws Exception Tables.columns(x)
+    @test Tables.columns(x)[:x] == [1, 2, 3]
     @test_throws Exception pyconvert(PyPandasDataFrame, 1)
     str = sprint(show, MIME("text/plain"), x)
-    @test occursin(r"4×3 .*PyPandasDataFrame", str)
+    @test occursin(r"3×2 .*PyPandasDataFrame", str)
 end
 
 @testitem "PySet" begin