Using Anaconda python directory in Atom IDE

Question

I have installed Anaconda on my Windows 10 system. Now I want to use python in newly installed Atom IDE. Atom cannot find python directory as it's not added to the environment variable path.

I installed python 3.6 separately and added it to path variables to overcome this issue. However, I still run into issues like missing .dll files. I found that this will continue as long as there Anaconda is installed on the system.

Is there a way I can add Anaconda python path to Atom or should I just add Anaconda library to path variables (which is not recommended by Anaconda)?

Answer 1

If you want to run python scripts inside atom, install script package from atom packages. Then open anaconda prompt, cd into your preferred directory and run atom . Now when you run Ctrl+Shift+B to run your python scripts, this script package will run with anaconda python.