

In addition, I recommend that you keep your condaĮnvironment relatively lightweight and useĪnother environment for your actual work. On my system (with a default miniconda install),Ĭ:/Users/CMoffitt/AppData/Local/Continuum/miniconda3/Scripts/activate.bat Once miniconda is installed, the preferred way to launch a python shell is to use miniconda’sįile to configure the shell environment. There is also a powershell option which is a little more complex but the same Hence, the need for this script to automate the process.įor the purposes of this article, I am only going to discuss using the command prompt approach Useful to automate a new user setup instead of trying to walk someone through this tedious process by hand.

However, I had a hard time modifying these shortcuts to customize the working directory. In fact, the default install will create some shortcuts Prompt with everything setup for your environment. More step in the python installation process.įortunately, Anaconda (fka Continuum) provides all the foundations to launch a powershell or command Your python environment working from a standard Windows prompt. This is “a good thing” but it means that you need to do a couple of extra steps to get For example,Ī default install will not add any python information to your default path, nor will it require admin Miniconda is great for streamlining the install of packages on Windows and using condaīy default, miniconda tries to have as minimal an impact on your system as possible.
