The Jupyter notebook worked initially, but I tried importing tensorflow and that would not work, so that led to me messing up everything.
I basically messed everything up, and I feel like the only way out now is to just nuke my device and restart. I had no idea what pip and anaconda are (still don't really), tried a bunch of funky updates and installations and whatever and now everything is just dead. My jupyter notebook cannot even run the normal python kernel.
How can I hard reset everything?
As a bonus, if someone were to ELI5 the difference between conda, pip, gitbash, and PowerShell are. And what versions of stuff does Jupyter run on (since my conda and device had different versions of things I think?). I use Windows 10.
My first piece of advice is to not use Windows, though I'll probably get downvote spam for that. On Ubuntu, I could stuff Jupyter setup into one line:
# update, install python3, python3-dev, and pip3; get pip packages
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y python3 python3-dev python3-pip && sudo -H python3 -m pip install jupyter notebook ipykernel tensorflow
Once the packages are installed, it's as easy as running jupyter notebook in the terminal.
Anaconda is a distribution of Python that includes a ton of pre-built packages, including Jupyter and scipy, numpy, pandas, etc. It's an "out of the box" solution basically, that comes with most of the tools you need. "Pip" is a package manager for Python; pip install [package] lets you use a package in your script, like import [package]. In this case, that's tensorflow.
ipykernel is a package that will open up a Python kernel for Jupyter. You could run a Jupyter notebook on a Python3.7 backend but do stuff with Python2 code by installing ipykernel with Python2's pip, usually (on Ubuntu) sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y python-pip && sudo -H python -m pip install ipykernel.
What happens when you run jupter notebook? Do you get errors? Can you get the notebook to open, but there's just no kernel to attach to a notebook?
I have just set up a new Windows 10 machine for Python, Jupyter, and Tensorflow. I did the set-up without anaconda. I did the normal set-up procedure with some special steps:
1) Python 3.8 und Jupyter as installed by "pip install" does not work. You need to add three lines of code in a module that is installed as dependency when you install Jupyter. change asyncio.py
2) Current Tensorflow does not work with Python 3.8. You need to install Python 3.7. You don't need to delete your Python 3.8 if you have one. Create a virtual environment with virtualenv as described here and give the Path to your Python 3.7 Special Python in virtualenv
3) If you want to use GPU for NVIDIA in Tensorflow, you need to deal with the fact that two things do not fit together: current Tensorflow and the current version of ‘NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit’ (a tools you need for GPU support). Take a look here for the fix: cudart64_XYZ.dll not found
Let's start with the basics:
As a bonus, if someone were to ELI5 the difference between conda, pip, gitbash, and powershell are
You probably know the classical cmd.exe which opens a basic terminal where you can use different commands and call programs from. It is basically a text based way to interact with your operating system.
Powershell is in my understanding just an extension of this (I don't use it myself) and has more capabilities of what you can do and also better scripting support.
gitbash is an optional tool that you probably installed when you installed git on your computer. It emulates a bash shell that many people are used to from different operating system like ubuntu where bash is often the default terminal and therefore makes it easier to use, as all the syntax and commands are then the same as these ppl are used.
Neither of these is in any way directly related to using python on your computer other than being able to type python or jupyter notebook into these terminals to start the applications.
To the more python specific questions:
conda is a package and virtual environment management tool. It can be used to install a variety of software and also create virtual environments to keep different set ups seperate from one another (e.g. different python versions on the same machine). But it is not limited to python. It is pre-installed when you download and install miniconda or anaconda which are two python distributions.
pip is a package manager only for python packages and comes pre-installed with most python distributions.
anaconda/miniconda , often times confused with conda are two python distributions, i.e. what you would consider as "I installed python on my system" that come with the conda package manager pre-installed. miniconda does thereby not ship any other packages while anaconda comes with a long list of useful packages pre-installed and is therefore a popular choice when you want an easy acces into using python for your research
For more info, you can also read understanding-conda-and-pip
How can you save your system now
I basically fucked everything up
Difficult to access the current state of your system, but I would suggest you try the following steps to get to a working condition again:
Go into Setting -> Apps and remove everything that is related to python or anaconda. Make sure that everything is deleted by also searching (using windows search feature) for python or conda folders somewhere in C:\Users. This should make sure that everything about your setup is purged
Make sure that neither python, pip or jupyter commands are working anymore in your cmd (confirming the purge)
Download and install miniconda
Now Create a virtual environment and install tf. This is a good way to go because if you should manage to f*k up the environment, you can just delete and recreate it without much trouble:
conda create -n venv pip python=3.7 #create environment
conda activate venv #activate the environment
conda install jupyter #for jupyter notebook
pip install https://storage.googleapis.com/tensorflow/windows/gpu/tensorflow_gpu-2.1.0-cp37-cp37m-win_amd64.whl
Start jupyter notebook: jupyter notebook. Since it only exists in this environment, same as tensorflow, there should be no more issues to use tensorflow normally
I tried to use pydap.client to access netcdf data from thredds server on a windows PC. I installed pydap using conda conda install -c conda-forge pydap=3.2.0.
When I run the code
from pydap.client import open_url
I get the following error message
pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: The 'gunicorn' distribution was not found and is required by the application
I tried to install gunicorn, However, gunicorn is not available for Windows.
Can't I use pydap.client in Windows?
My question is thoroughly based on this question. The big difference is I'm focusing on windows here. The answers/question provided there were for unix distributions.
I've ran Python 2.x for quite a while and have used pip with no problems.
Now I've installed python 3 but when I open the cmd prompt and pip install somemodule it tries to install it for python 2. How can I deal with this situation ?
Both Python's were installed with the Anaconda distribution so I believe both of them come with pip installed. Note: This info come from this question
EDIT:
Found this answer which addresses that issue.
But now when I try to run the command
pip3.5 install pymssql
or
pip-3.5 install pymssql
I get the error pip3.5 is an unknown command.
If I open cmd and type python I receive:
Python 3.5.1 Anaconda 4.0.0
so it shouldn't be a version problem
You will want to make sure you have the correct Anaconda environment activated, which it looks like you have in this case.
conda env list # Display the list of conda environments
In the Windows Command Prompt you should just need to use:
activate py35 # Or whatever your Python 3.5 environment is called. (Mine is root)
pip install pymssql
Instead of pip-3.5.
To install it in another environment (mine is called py27):
activate py27
pip install pymssql
I successfully used this command in both my Python 2.7 and 3.5 Anaconda environments.
To go back to your primary environment (root), just type activate without an environment name after it
I'm trying to install Theano on windows with Anaconda and I'm stuck at the "Configuring the Environment" step. The instructions here say: The script assumes that you installed WinPython distribution, update the winpython line otherwise. The line in question is
CALL %SCISOFT%\WinPython-64bit-2.7.9.4\scripts\env.bat
What am I supposed to change this to if I'm using Anaconda instead of WinPython?
It's easy to install "Theano on Windows with Anaconda"
After Anaconda is installed:
$ conda install mingw libpython
$ pip install theano
Then maybe, you needn't do anything else, just test it.
The dedicated Anaconda paragraph is not correct ?
http://deeplearning.net/software/theano/install_windows.html#alternative-anaconda
all I want is install pandas comfortably the package pandas via pip.
Inside python I get the following error message:
>>> pip install pandas
c:\python34\python.exe: No module named pip.__main__; 'pip' is a package and cannot be directly executed
Allright then I use the windows powershell
PS C:\Windows\system32> C:\Python34\python.exe -m pip install pandas
C:\Python34\python.exe: No module named pip
I had uninstalled and reinstalled python because I used at first the 32-Bit version but wanted 64-Bit, but had some issues so switched back to the 32-Bit version.
Before the reinstallation process I remember, that I could get pip to work but due to proxy issues didn't get very far. I am not a hundred percent positive but I might have gotten around the proxy issue at least.
Don't know what to do. Can somebody help.
thanks
Gerrit