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Beryl Amend
Beryl Amend

Reputation: 400

difference between '%pip' and '!pip' in python jupyter notebook and colab

what is the difference between '!pip' and '%pip'? We can use both of them in jupyter notebook and google colab. But we can not use the simple 'pip' there, can we?

Upvotes: 25

Views: 15039

Answers (2)

Vishal
Vishal

Reputation: 590

%pip will install the package in the virtual environment where the current notebook kernel is running. While !pip will install the package in the base environment. If you are using Python virtual environment (as you should!), you should use %pip.

Upvotes: 23

x4k3p
x4k3p

Reputation: 1779

%pip is a magic function and works mostly the same like pip. You can use other magic functions in jupyter which you can list with %lsmagic

(https://ipython.readthedocs.io/en/stable/interactive/magics.html#magic-lsmagic)

Using ! allows to run commands like ls or pip or what you have available on your OS.

Colab is just like jupyter so you can run native pip like pip install tensorflow.

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Upvotes: 11

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