Good evening, I am doing a machine learning application and unfortunately I can’t do it yet in Elixir (thank you for all your effort put in Nx:)). So, I decided to make a port (a bare port, not ErlPort) but I’m struggling with python envs. Does anyone know how to launch a python program with a pyt…

I have never tried it but I think that setting the environment variable PYTHONPATH should be enough. If you’re using Port.open/2 you can try port = Port.open({:spawn, cmd}, [:binary, {:env, [{'PYTHONPATH', '/path/to/your/venv/Lib/site-packages'}]}])

[image] SirWerto: Does anyone know how to launch a python program with a python environment activated in Elixir? That’s an interesting question! Which however I don’t fully understand :smiley: What do you mean exactly?

Sorry for the delay I mean, when you are going to work on your project, you usually start activating your environment source myproject_env/bin/activate and then, you have access to all the dependencies your project needs python my_app.py so the question is, can i activate my environment using a…

I made a mistake in my previous answer and I just corrected it. Try to use the PYTHONPATH and not PYTHONHOME variable.

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It works!!, at least it loads the packages:) I am going to try it more this weekend thanks :slight_smile:

Excellent post!! thank you, marked as solution too :slight_smile: The forum only allow me to select one solution :cry: sorry

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SirWerto December 16, 2021, 6:51pm 5

uuh, that sounds great