Running Jupyter with multiple Python and IPython paths

Question

I\'d like to work with Jupyter notebooks, but have had difficulty doing basic imports (such as import matplotlib). I think this was because I have several user-managed pytho

Answer 1

@jakevdp explained it very well.

When I updated my ubuntu I also had the same problem and I solved it by changing the kernel configuration file(kernel.json). To list the kernel files location. Use

jupyter kernelspec list

It will return

Available kernels:
  python3    /home/user1/.local/share/jupyter/kernels/python3
  python2    /usr/local/share/jupyter/kernels/python2

I was using python3 so I changed the file at

/home/user1/.local/share/jupyter/kernels/python3

by following step

nano /home/user1/.local/share/jupyter/kernels/python3/kernel.json

There inside argv I changed the first parameter(i.e. python3 directory path) form

"/usr/bin/python3.5"

to

"/usr/bin/python3"

and saved it with ctr+x and restarted jupyter-notebook.