Trying to clean python (anaconda) installation, get error related to previous installations
Every time I do a clean install of anaconda I get the same long error. I would optimally like to clean my computer of any python files. I tried everything from removing path variables to clear my computer of residual folders / files (except .anaconda, I had no success here) to remove the HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Python key in regedit. I believe this error occurred when I tried to install the second version of python (I have a continuum install). Any help would be awesome and much appreciated! `Current conda install:
platform : win-64
conda version : 4.3.21
conda is private : False
conda-env version : 4.3.21
conda-build version : not installed
python version : 3.6.1.final.0
requests version : 2.14.2
root environment : C:\Users\John\Anaconda3 (writable)
default environment : C:\Users\John\Anaconda3
envs directories : C:\Users\John\Anaconda3\envs
C:\Users\John\AppData\Local\conda\conda\envs
C:\Users\John\.conda\envs
package cache : C:\Users\John\Anaconda3\pkgs
C:\Users\John\AppData\Local\conda\conda\pkgs
channel URLs : https://repo.continuum.io/pkgs/free/win-64
https://repo.continuum.io/pkgs/free/noarch
https://repo.continuum.io/pkgs/r/win-64
https://repo.continuum.io/pkgs/r/noarch
https://repo.continuum.io/pkgs/pro/win-64
https://repo.continuum.io/pkgs/pro/noarch
https://repo.continuum.io/pkgs/msys2/win-64
https://repo.continuum.io/pkgs/msys2/noarch
config file : None
netrc file : None
offline mode : False
user-agent : conda/4.3.21 requests/2.14.2 CPython/3.6.1 Windows/10 Windows/10.0.15063
administrator : False
$ C:\Users\John\Anaconda3\Scripts\conda-script.py ..checkenv cmd.exe C:\Users\John\Anaconda3
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\John\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\conda\cli\main.py", line 167, in main
import conda.cli.activate as activate
File "C:\Users\John\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\conda\cli\activate.py", line 12, in <module>
from ..utils import shells
File "C:\Users\John\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\conda\utils.py", line 13, in <module>
from .gateways.disk.read import compute_md5sum
File "C:\Users\John\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\conda\gateways\disk\read.py", line 22, in <module>
from ...models.channel import Channel
File "C:\Users\John\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\conda\models\channel.py", line 9, in <module>
from ..base.context import context
File "C:\Users\John\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\conda\base\context.py", line 18, in <module>
from .._vendor.auxlib.path import expand
File "C:\Users\John\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\conda\_vendor\auxlib\path.py", line 8, in <module>
import pkg_resources
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 961, in _find_and_load
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 950, in _find_and_load_unlocked
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 646, in _load_unlocked
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 616, in _load_backward_compatible
File "C:\Users\John\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\setuptools-27.2.0-py3.6.egg\pkg_resources\__init__.py", line 2985, in <module>
@_call_aside
File "C:\Users\John\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\setuptools-27.2.0-py3.6.egg\pkg_resources\__init__.py", line 2971, in _call_aside
f(*args, **kwargs)
File "C:\Users\John\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\setuptools-27.2.0-py3.6.egg\pkg_resources\__init__.py", line 3013, in _initialize_master_working_set
dist.activate(replace=False)
File "C:\Users\John\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\setuptools-27.2.0-py3.6.egg\pkg_resources\__init__.py", line 2544, in activate
declare_namespace(pkg)
File "C:\Users\John\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\setuptools-27.2.0-py3.6.egg\pkg_resources\__init__.py", line 2118, in declare_namespace
_handle_ns(packageName, path_item)
File "C:\Users\John\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\setuptools-27.2.0-py3.6.egg\pkg_resources\__init__.py", line 2058, in _handle_ns
_rebuild_mod_path(path, packageName, module)
File "C:\Users\John\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\setuptools-27.2.0-py3.6.egg\pkg_resources\__init__.py", line 2087, in _rebuild_mod_path
orig_path.sort(key=position_in_sys_path)
AttributeError: '_NamespacePath' object has no attribute 'sort'`
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First, make sure the pip and setuptools options are up to date, per this answer.
In the future, it may be useful to use venv
to create a virtual environment that will help eliminate dependency headaches.
Create a new virtual environment as follows:
python3 -m venv /path/to/new/virtual/environment
Requires Python 3.3 or higher, but it looks like you are using 3.6, so you should be good to go. More information venv
can be found here .
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