How to set env variable in Jupyter notebook

Question

I\'ve a problem that Jupyter can\'t see env variable in bashrc file, is there a way to load these variables in jupyter or add custome variable to it?

Answer 1

If you are using systemd I just found out that you seem to have to add them to the systemd unit file. This on Ubuntu 16. Putting them into the .profile and .bashrc (even the /etc/profile) resulted in the ENV Vars not being available in the juypter notebooks.

I had to edit:

/lib/systemd/system/jupyer-notebook.service

and put in the variable i wanted to read in the unit file like:

Environment=MYOWN_VAR=theVar

and only then could I read it from within juypter notebook.