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<\/a><\/p>\nThankfully, the fix isn’t painful — it’s just frustrating that it needs to be done.<\/p>\n
I’ve seen suggestions to use the old-school DOS 8.3 file paths, but I prefer to use something that still reads well and maps to other dev command line tools on my workstation.<\/p>\n
I created a directory junction in an existing folder C:\\Dev:<\/strong><\/p>\n Specifically, I created:<\/p>\n which is a junction to:<\/p>\n You can use any junction directory you want, but remember that it can’t be too long, or you’ll have the same problem with a different name\/path. :) When using mklink<\/strong>, be sure to quote the path for the Anaconda install in the Visual Studio directory as shown above in the mklink example.<\/p>\n Next, I updated the command prompt with the new path:<\/p>\n Of course, you’ll need to substitute the path you used (just copy and paste into Notepad and do a quick search and replace with the full path I used).<\/p>\n It should start up without issue now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For some reason, if you install the Python Tools for Visual Studio 2017, you’ll end up with an Anaconda command prompt that won’t work. 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C:\\Dev\\Anaconda3_64<\/pre>\n
c:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Visual Studio\\Shared\\Anaconda3_64<\/pre>\n
c:\\Dev\\Anaconda3_64\\pythonw.exe C:\\Dev\\Anaconda3_64\\cwp.py C:\\Dev\\Anaconda3_64 %windir%\\system32\\cmd.exe \/k c:\\Dev\\Anaconda3_64\\Scripts\\activate.bat c:\\Dev\\Anaconda3_64<\/pre>\n