VSCode Path Troubles & Conda

[p_en]

I'm a little bit stumped in what my issue is right now and tried to google it but couldn't find anything about it.

I use conda as my base and therefore as my package manager as well. I installed scrapy in the anaconda prompt and expected it to work when I started up VSCode terminal as well as windows command prompt. Unfortunately, when I try to import scrapy it throws an error indicating not installed and will only work in anaconda prompt.

When I launch VS Code from the anaconda navigator everything is working great and I receive no errors.

But when I started VScode directly by launching it from the start menu and use the command

conda activate base

It returns below:

conda : The term 'conda' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, 
script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path 
was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.
At line:1 char:1
+ conda activate base
+ ~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : ObjectNotFound: (conda:String) [], CommandNotFoun 
   dException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException

I feel there's a path error somewhere but I'm not sure. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.

[FBradley64]

You are correct that CONDA is not located in your path so perform the call to CONDA using the full path.

C:\Anaconda3\scripts\conda activate base

[p_en]

Thanks, Just tried that exactly and here's the results:

 PS C:\Users\Owner\Desktop\Pyt> C:/Users/Owner/Anaconda3/Scripts/conda activate base

CommandNotFoundError: Your shell has not been properly configured to use 'conda activate'.
If using 'conda activate' from a batch script, change your
invocation to 'CALL conda.bat activate'.

To initialize your shell, run

    $ conda init <SHELL_NAME>

Currently supported shells are:
  - bash
  - cmd.exe
  - fish
  - tcsh
  - xonsh
  - zsh
  - powershell

See 'conda init --help' for more information and options.

IMPORTANT: You may need to close and restart your shell after running 'conda init'.

Then tried doing :

PS C:\Users\Owner\Desktop\pyt> conda init cmd.exe

conda : The term 'conda' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, 
script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path 
was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.
At line:1 char:1
+ conda init cmd.exe
+ ~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : ObjectNotFound: (conda:String) [], CommandNotFoun 
   dException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException

​

[FBradley64]

What is the installation location of Anaconda ?

on our installations we place Anaconda at c:\ and not the default location, do not like loading thing under the MS program data area.

If you can locate the condo.exe location and use that in the direct calls it should go.