How to create virtual environments in Synapses Analytics notebooks?

Question

I would like to create virtual environments in Synapses Analytics notebooks. Is that enabled? If so, where can I find some documentation to guide me through the process? Thanks, Daniela

Answer 1

Hello Daniela Elia, Welcome to the MS Q&A platform.

As per my research, you can use conda package manager to create a virtual environment in Synapse notebooks.

You can follow the below steps.

Run the following command in the Synapse notebook to create a new environment.

%pip install conda
!conda create --name myenv

Activate the environment by running the following command:

conda activate myenv.

Install packages in the environment using the conda install Command.

To deactivate the environment, run the following command:

conda deactivate.

I hope this helps. Please let me know if you have any further questions.