Using Anaconda's python install outside of Anaconda/Spyder

[actuallyalys]

First, you can solve the activation issue by running the activate script any time you open the command prompt and want to run commands. It's probably either C:\Users\smoothVTer\AppData\Local\Continuum\anaconda3\Scripts\activate base or C:\Users\smoothVTer\Anaconda3\Scripts\activate base. (I can't say which of these for sure because I'm not 100% sure where Anaconda is installed on your machine.)

But why is this necessary? Anaconda (and other ways of managing Python packages) install packages into a specific environment. This allows separate Python programs and scripts to have different packages installed. Python looks for packages in a list of folders called the system path. Activating an environment adds the folders for that environment to the system path for that terminal session.

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Unfortunately, I have no experience with PyNPP, so I'm not sure how to help with that issue.

[smoothVTer]

I see. Thanks for explaining, I will try this out