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Using jupyter notebooks with a virtual environment

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56 pointsangelobasile16 comments

I encourage the OP and readers to also try pipenv. From the author of Requests it is like a breath of fresh air and gets the combination of pip and virtual environments just right.

https://docs.pipenv.org/

This looks amazing, thanks for sharing! I wish Kenneth Reitz designed the interface for everything I use :)

https://saythanks.io/to/kennethreitz

Fantastic! Thanks.

Looks awesome, but requirements.txt still seems pretty sufficient for me. Simple is better than complex :)

Moving away from requirements.txt is only warranted when you are also trying to use virtual env. This passes my "simple is better" test by reducing two tools into a unified one that works.

Also consider using Conda - to replace and simplify use of venv and pip. http://stuarteberg.github.io/conda-docs/_downloads/conda-pip...

I agree 1000%! I honestly could not imagine using Jupyter without a virtual env. I don't worry about anything related to Python / virtual envs since I started using the Anaconda distribution. Further, every sciency tool is at my fingertips with almost ZERO configuration on my part...

If I had to vote on: "There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it." for Python dev, I would choose Conda so hard.

How do you develop new packages? I think conda-build develop is not maintained

the develop command in conda-build is indeed not really kept up. From https://github.com/conda/conda-build/issues/1992#issuecommen... :

Instead, I recommend creating whatever environment you want, activating it, and then running python setup.py develop or pip install -e . so that your package is installed in develop mode in that environment.

Nice. Here is my starter https://gist.github.com/lukasz-madon/ecf5813fddbbee7a261151d...

here is a hosted playable version of your starter notebook (on gryd) https://beta.gryd.us/notebook/published/gryd/notebook-starte...

I've also got a small CLI on PyPI to do the same: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/callisto

Thanks for the writeup , and others for interesting suggestions. Always on the look out for people thinking about making scientific python more reproducible and accessible!

For myself, i just activate the venv and then open a notebook in that terminal and it seems to work? never had to install any other libraries to handle the VENV + notebook combo.

Thanks for this. I've been running separate instances of jupyter on different ports. This is more elegant.

I use virtualenvwrapper with my notebooks.

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