Activate virtual environement and start jupyter no

Question

I created the following batch file: jupyter_nn.bat. Inside file I have:

cd "C:\My_favorite_path"
activate neuralnets
jupyter notebook

So the goal is to activate conda virtual environment and start jupyter notebook. For some reason this does not work. Window immediately shuts down. If I run this batch file from cmd, it only executes activate neulranets. I already tried pause and pause>nul and other voodoo dances. Any suggestions? Also this is for Windows 7.

Answer 1

You need to add CALL before the activate. Since activate is another batch script, unless you CALL it, the whole process will exit. See here for more explanation: How to run multiple .BAT files within a .BAT file

cd "C:\My_favorite_path"
CALL activate neuralnets
jupyter notebook

(You might also need to CALL the Jupyter Notebook)