• Tips and tricks
  • Print your current local environment
  • Print information about a specific package

We’ve all been there… trying to import a package and python can’t find it? Below are a few tricks to figure out what environment you are in!

This can be useful when troubleshooting code that is not running as you expect!

Tips and tricks

Print your current local environment

this is a good trick for when you’re working in Python and something seems wrong with your environment. It could be that you are in a different environment than you think you are!

Python to the rescue!

The code snippet below will print the conda environment name to help you troubleshootz.

import os

# print(os.environ['CONDA_DEFAULT_ENV'])
os.environ.keys

<bound method Mapping.keys of environ({'CI': 'true', 'CONDA_DIR': '/opt/conda', 'DENO_DOM_PLUGIN': '/opt/quarto/bin/tools/deno_dom/libplugin.so', 'DENO_NO_UPDATE_CHECK': '1', 'GITHUB_ACTION': '__run_5', 'GITHUB_ACTIONS': 'true', 'GITHUB_ACTION_REF': '', 'GITHUB_ACTION_REPOSITORY': '', 'GITHUB_ACTOR': 'lwasser', 'GITHUB_ACTOR_ID': '7649194', 'GITHUB_API_URL': 'https://api.github.com', 'GITHUB_BASE_REF': '', 'GITHUB_ENV': '/__w/_temp/_runner_file_commands/set_env_7ce832b8-08de-4a12-adee-7e4ab4178675', 'GITHUB_EVENT_NAME': 'push', 'GITHUB_EVENT_PATH': '/github/workflow/event.json', 'GITHUB_GRAPHQL_URL': 'https://api.github.com/graphql', 'GITHUB_HEAD_REF': '', 'GITHUB_JOB': 'build-website', 'GITHUB_OUTPUT': '/__w/_temp/_runner_file_commands/set_output_7ce832b8-08de-4a12-adee-7e4ab4178675', 'GITHUB_PATH': '/__w/_temp/_runner_file_commands/add_path_7ce832b8-08de-4a12-adee-7e4ab4178675', 'GITHUB_REF': 'refs/heads/main', 'GITHUB_REF_NAME': 'main', 'GITHUB_REF_PROTECTED': 'false', 'GITHUB_REF_TYPE': 'branch', 'GITHUB_REPOSITORY': 'data-science-skills/dss-web', 'GITHUB_REPOSITORY_ID': '600898590', 'GITHUB_REPOSITORY_OWNER': 'data-science-skills', 'GITHUB_REPOSITORY_OWNER_ID': '125224243', 'GITHUB_RETENTION_DAYS': '90', 'GITHUB_RUN_ATTEMPT': '1', 'GITHUB_RUN_ID': '8055287413', 'GITHUB_RUN_NUMBER': '114', 'GITHUB_SERVER_URL': 'https://github.com', 'GITHUB_SHA': '3a07e29595e935f0ba8afe8504c1420bb6174e9d', 'GITHUB_STATE': '/__w/_temp/_runner_file_commands/save_state_7ce832b8-08de-4a12-adee-7e4ab4178675', 'GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY': '/__w/_temp/_runner_file_commands/step_summary_7ce832b8-08de-4a12-adee-7e4ab4178675', 'GITHUB_TRIGGERING_ACTOR': 'lwasser', 'GITHUB_WORKFLOW': 'Build DSS website', 'GITHUB_WORKFLOW_REF': 'data-science-skills/dss-web/.github/workflows/build-site.yml@refs/heads/main', 'GITHUB_WORKFLOW_SHA': '3a07e29595e935f0ba8afe8504c1420bb6174e9d', 'GITHUB_WORKSPACE': '/__w/dss-web/dss-web', 'GOLANG_ARCH': 'amd64', 'GOLANG_OS': 'linux', 'GOLANG_VERSION': '1.17', 'HOME': '/github/home', 'HOSTNAME': 'bd1e561f743c', 'LANG': 'C.UTF-8', 'LC_ALL': 'C.UTF-8', 'MPLBACKEND': 'module://matplotlib_inline.backend_inline', 'PATH': '/__t/node/18.19.1/x64/bin:/opt/conda/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/local/go/bin', 'PWD': '/__w/dss-web/dss-web', 'QUARTO_BIN_PATH': '/opt/quarto/bin', 'QUARTO_DENO': '/opt/quarto/bin/tools/deno-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/deno', 'QUARTO_FILTER_DEPENDENCY_FILE': '/tmp/quarto-session991a162f/ab592a66/a425388a', 'QUARTO_PROFILE': '', 'QUARTO_PROJECT_DIR': '/__w/dss-web/dss-web', 'QUARTO_ROOT': '/', 'QUARTO_SHARE_PATH': '/opt/quarto/share', 'RUNNER_ARCH': 'X64', 'RUNNER_ENVIRONMENT': 'github-hosted', 'RUNNER_NAME': 'GitHub Actions 7', 'RUNNER_OS': 'Linux', 'RUNNER_TEMP': '/__w/_temp', 'RUNNER_TOOL_CACHE': '/__t', 'RUNNER_WORKSPACE': '/__w/dss-web', 'SHLVL': '2', '_': '/opt/quarto/bin/tools/deno-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/deno', 'QUARTO_FIG_WIDTH': '8', 'QUARTO_FIG_HEIGHT': '5', 'QUARTO_FIG_DPI': '192', 'QUARTO_FIG_FORMAT': 'png', 'PYDEVD_USE_FRAME_EVAL': 'NO', 'JPY_PARENT_PID': '1180', 'TERM': 'xterm-color', 'CLICOLOR': '1', 'FORCE_COLOR': '1', 'CLICOLOR_FORCE': '1', 'PAGER': 'cat', 'GIT_PAGER': 'cat'})>

Print information about a specific package

…when you are developing tools you may want to make sure your package is installed in editable mode…