How to set env variable in Jupyter notebook

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Ehab AlBadawy picture Ehab AlBadawy · Jun 17, 2016 · Viewed 107.4k times · Source

I've a problem that Jupyter can't see env variable in bashrc file, is there a way to load these variables in jupyter or add custome variable to it?

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michael picture michael · May 30, 2017

To set an env variable in a jupyter notebook, just use a % magic commands, either %env or %set_env, e.g., %env MY_VAR=MY_VALUE or %env MY_VAR MY_VALUE. (Use %env by itself to print out current environmental variables.)

See: http://ipython.readthedocs.io/en/stable/interactive/magics.html

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