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Ehsan Tabatabaei
Ehsan Tabatabaei

Reputation: 153

Unable to change default python version in windows

Anaconda 2.3.0 with python 3.4.0 is installed on my Windows PC.

I want to upgrade to python 3.5.

I already created an Anaconda environment using conda create --name py35 python=3.5 and activated it using activate py35.

After installing python 3.5 and conda 6.0.1, still default version is 3.4.2

even in cmd after activating py35, when I write python --version it says: 

python 3.4.2 :: Anaconda 2.3.0 (64-bit)

please help

Upvotes: 0

Views: 568

Answers (1)

FHTMitchell
FHTMitchell

Reputation: 12157

The command conda create --name py35 python=3.5 creates a new environment which has no effect, by design, on your default environment. To upgrade the default version do

conda install python=3.5

(out of interest, why not go to the latest python release, 3.6? In that case you can just do conda update python)

Upvotes: 1

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