How to activate an Anaconda environment
I'm on Windows 8, using Anaconda 1.7.5 64bit.
I created a new Anaconda environment with
conda create -p ./test python=2.7 pip
from C:\Pr\TEMP\venv\.
This worked well (there is a folder with a new python distribution). conda tells me to type
activate C:\PR\TEMP\venv\test
to activate the environment, however this returns:
No environment named "C:\PR\temp\venv\test" exists in C:\PR\Anaconda\envs
How can I activate the environment? What am I doing wrong?
Answer
If this happens you would need to set the PATH for your environment (so that it gets the right Python from the environment and Scripts\ on Windows).
Imagine you have created an environment called py33 by using:
conda create -n py33 python=3.3 anaconda
Here the folders are created by default in Anaconda\envs, so you need to set the PATH as:
set PATH=C:\Anaconda\envs\py33\Scripts;C:\Anaconda\envs\py33;%PATH%
Now it should work in the command window:
activate py33
The line above is the Windows equivalent to the code that normally appears in the tutorials for Mac and Linux:
$ source activate py33
More info: https://groups.google.com/a/continuum.io/forum/#!topic/anaconda/8T8i11gO39U
Does `anaconda` create a separate PYTHONPATH variable for each new environment?