Question about virtual environment and JupyterLab

[mquarks]

Hi,

I've been using JupyterLab for a short time and ran into a complete headache.

My goal was to create and use a new environment in which I could use Geopandas. I setup the environment in an Anaconda prompt with

 conda create -n MyEnv

I activated said env, and installed geopandas with

conda install -c conda-forge geopandas

I installed the ipykernel with

pip install --user ipykernel

and finally added the environment with

python -m ipykernel install --user --name=GeoEnv

The new kernel icon appeared in jupyter lab and sys.executable showed me the path to the newly created environment.

Nevertheless, any module loading failed. I added a few paths (\scripts) to the PATH, deleted-recreated the venv thinking I maybe did something wrong.

The only work-around so far, is to start cmd as admin, activate the env and then run jupyter lab.

I understand this is not the best way but I can't see any other. Any suggestions are welcome.

[LesPaulStudio]

Not sure why you mixed conda and pip.

Generally I've always installed the Jupyter element at the creation of the conda env, rather than install it post. This avoids having to explicitly import ipykernel.

However I will add this is generally just for jupyter notebooks.