How to connect a Virtual Environment to a Jupyter Notebook?
Connect your Jupyter Notebooks to a Virtual Environment.
The article shows you how to connect a virtual environment with a specific Python version to a Jupyter Notebook. The easiest way to achieve this is through pyenv, a Virtual Environment and a Jupyter Notebook.
If you haven’t realised already there will be many occasions where you will need to run different Python versions and different Python packages to achieve the desired project outcome. Virtual environments are the best practice approach for tackling package management and Python version control. Over the years, creating virtual environments has become easier and easier. Also, there is a cohort of developers who have been taught through Jupyter Notebooks and are using Jupyter Notebooks in their everyday development work. One of the challenges many face is once you create a virtual environment how does one connect the virtual environment to the Jupyter Notebook? If a Jupyter Notebook is your development tool, let me take you through the complete process of how to connect your Jupyter Notebook to a virtual environment. Step zero is to install pyenv. If you are new to pyenv and would like to know how to install and run pyenv please have a read of the article.
