Get the Anaconda prompt running in the PyCharm terminal

Question

I have Miniconda3 installed at C:\\Users\\me\\Miniconda3, and my \'Project Interpreter\' within PyCharm set to my conda environment, and that is all working correctly. Howev

Answer 1

Great answer by dd. It helped me out as well, but I chose to do it in a slightly different way in PyCharm.

It appears we can get the Anaconda prompt running in the PyCharm terminal without having to redirect to a new Shell path, ie. we may keep the original Shell path which in my case is "C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe" for Windows 10. And instead point to the Environment Variables that are used by the conda command prompt, in the following way:

1. Get the PATH value of your conda environment, for instance by performing echo %PATH from the conda command prompt as described here in the answer by Rob / Adrian. If you have already set the PATH for the python interpreter in PyCharm you can find it here: Settings - Build, Execution, Deployment - Console - Python Console. Click the folder button to the right of Environment variables input and then copy the path value from the Value field to the right of the variable under Name
2. Then go to Settings - Tools - Terminal
3. Click the folder icon to the right of Environment Variables input section, and create a new variable by pressing the + symbol. Name it PATH and paste in the previously copied value. Click OK and then Apply

You could restart PyCharm, or close and restart Terminal within PyCharm, in order to make sure the changes have been recognized.

Now you should be able to use for instance both pip list and conda list within the same Terminal window within PyCharm. In my case the former command returns a smaller list compared to the larger list from the other command (from conda).

Regardless, it appears you should now be able to use both within one, ie. to use the same Terminal window to perform conda and regular python operations, for instance for installations.

Sidenote: Though the two-in-one option works for the Terminal windows it does not seem to work for the Python Console - where I use the conda one within PyCharm. In that Console it currently only recognize packages from the conda interpreter and not the packages from my previous regular python interpreter.

Anyway, hope this helps other people! If anyone has any insights into whether or not this is a viable solution in the long run, please let me know.

Answer 2

You can change pycharm settings to achieve this.

In Settings > Tools > Terminal, change the Shell path as following:

cmd.exe "/K" "C:\Users\me\Miniconda3\Scripts\activate.bat" "C:\Users\me\Miniconda3"

And the C:\Users\me\Miniconda3 can be replaced by either one of your conda environment name such as base

Close the Terminal and reopen it, you will get the Anaconda prompt.

It works in my PyCharm Community Edition 2018.1.2

Answer 3

The shell path may differ, you can check from the properties of shortcut of 'Anaconda Prompt': rightClick on the icon of 'Anaconda Prompt' >> properties >> shortcut >> Target

Answer 4

For window user, first of all check the location of your anaconda environment

you could type conda env list to show

For my case, the env I want to have my anaconda prompt is located at C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\Anaconda3\ (which is the root env, the very first you get)

And then go to pycharm, go settings, go Tools, Inside Shell path enter

cmd.exe "/K" C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\Anaconda3\Scripts\activate.bat C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\Anaconda3