Anaconda Python: where are the virtual environments stored?

Solution 1:

If you activate the environment you're interested in, you can find that answer in the environment variables.

on MacOS/Linux:

source activate python35
echo $CONDA_PREFIX

on Windows:

conda activate python35
echo %CONDA_PREFIX%

You can also run conda info --envs, and that will show the paths to all your environments.

To get the path to the instance of python being used by a particular environment, do the following:

on MacOS/Linux:

source activate python35
which python

on Windows:

conda activate python35
where python

That should return the path you're looking for.

Solution 2:

You can run the command conda info.

This will output something like this:

envs directories : C:\Users\Geo\.local\Miniconda3\envs
                   C:\Users\Geo\.conda\envs
                   C:\Users\Geo\AppData\Local\conda\conda\envs

I have installed conda at C:\Users\Geo\.local\Miniconda3.

Then with the command conda info -e you get the location of each environment.

(base) C:\Users\Geo>conda info -e
# conda environments:
#
miniconda2               C:\Users\Geo\.conda\envs\miniconda2
base                  *  C:\Users\Geo\.local\Miniconda3
anaconda3                C:\Users\Geo\.local\Miniconda3\envs\anaconda3
ml                       C:\Users\Geo\.local\Miniconda3\envs\ml

Solution 3:

Your environments are located in Anaconda3\envs\<yourEnv_directory>\