How to make batch files run in anaconda prompt

Question

After installing anaconda3 in windows, I can run python commands from the anaconda prompt, but not from the windows command prompt. I would like to make a desktop shortcut to activate my environment and run spyder from it. Previously, I would do this with a .bat file, but now that I cannot run python commands from cmd.exe this doesn't work.

Is there an alternative way of running batch files for the anaconda prompt? I know that I could just modify my PATH to get cmd.exe to run python commands, but I'd like to avoid this if possible.

Solution 1

I believe all the Anaconda prompt does is open CMD and run a batch file. Make the first command of your script:

call <anaconda_dir>/Scripts/activate.bat <anaconda_dir>

Solution 2

Extending Jeremy's answer:

You do need to use call for the "activate.bat" script as well as any subsequent Anaconda/Python-related commands. Otherwise the prompt will immediately quit after running the commands, even if you use a pause statement. Please see below example:

set root=C:\Users\john.doe\AppData\Local\Continuum\anaconda3

call %root%\Scripts\activate.bat %root%

call conda list pandas

pause

Solution 3

Thanks to this thread I solved my challenge to get a windows batch file to open the Ananconda Prompt and then run some python code.

Here is the batch file:

@echo on
call C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\Scripts\activate.bat
C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\python.exe "D:\Documents\PythonCode\TFLAPI\V1.py"

Solution 4

Add

call "<anaconda_dir>\Scripts\activate.bat"

to the start of your script (it doesn't actually require an argument, and it activates the base environment by default).

Note that after this line, you can make use of the CONDA_ envvars!

Solution 5

For Windows, use the following script in your batch file to execute a Python script. Simply change your personal file paths like this:

cmd /c C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\condabin\conda.bat run "C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\python.exe" "C:\Users\User Name\Path to your Python File\Python File.py"

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Comments

[djvg]

and maybe use call in your batch file, so it will not exit after the first command?

[Ryan Huebert]

i found my prompt would close even with call, I added cmd /k at the end of the file

[Bimo]

install "active state python 3.5" instead of anaconda.. make sure its in your path then type: "PS C:\user\dfsdsdf> jupyter notebook" … you can get used to using notebooks instead of qtconsole for small calculations

[Soren]

The solution is a bit unsatisfying, because the anaconda directory is different on each system. It would be better to have a shebang like in Linux that tells the script not to be called with cmd.exe but with anaconda prompt.

[Jeremy McGibbon]

You do have to manually insert your anaconda directory where I've indicated <anaconda_dir>, unless there's an environment variable I'm missing. The anaconda prompt is actually just cmd.exe, and "it would be better if Windows were more like Linux" isn't an option, so a shebang doesn't quite make sense.

[Ioannis K. Moutsatsos]

if you have created several conda environments, then you can activate a specific one by supplying it as a parameter to the activate.bat file. So the command would become call <anaconda_dir>/Scripts/activate.bat <env_name>

[adinda aulia]

THANKK YOU SO MUCHHHH

[Soumya Boral]

This is the complete solution with a working example.

[Demetry Pascal]

works really good, but how to use opened prompt after script running? Is there some command to not exit ?

[David Doria]

@JedB when I double click a .bat file like this, I get a terminal window along with my GUI (using PySimpleGUI). Is there something to be done in the .bat that can hide the terminal window?

[JedB]

@DavidDoria I don't know of a way to do that.

[Kream]

yes just add cmd \k at the very end instead of pause