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@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ This project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/).
 ### Fixed
 - Fix concurrent first access to lazily initialized graph object properties, which could raise `ValueError("Invalid value")` [[#3441](https://github.com/plotly/plotly.py/issues/3441)], with thanks to @hb1915 for the contribution!
 - Fix `px.sunburst`, `px.treemap` and `px.icicle` listing sectors in a different order on every run when `path` is used with a Polars DataFrame; sectors now follow their order of first appearance for all dataframe backends [[#5765](https://github.com/plotly/plotly.py/issues/5765)], with thanks to @Irahan2 for the contribution!
+- Fix README Quickstart install command to include `plotly[express]` and `pandas` so the `px.bar` example works in a fresh environment [[#5790](https://github.com/plotly/plotly.py/issues/5790)]
 
 
 ## [7.1.0] - 2026-09-15
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@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
 
 ## Quickstart
 
-`pip install plotly`
+`pip install "plotly[express]" pandas`
 
 ```python
 import plotly.express as px