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Anaconda PATH hack breaks QGIS #28

Closed znmeb closed 7 years ago

znmeb commented 7 years ago

QGIS needs python 2.7 to be in user's PATH :8ball:

znmeb commented 7 years ago

For the curious, here's what happened:

  1. When I installed Anaconda3, I selected the option to _prepend_ the Anaconda binary directory to my PATH.
  2. Now when I type the python command, I get _Anaconda's_ Python, which is Python 3.5.2!
  3. That's not what I expected. I expected the system's default standard Python, which is Python 2.7.12.

So any program that executes a python command in the context where Anaconda3 has modified the PATH isn't going to get what it expected either. Nasty bug.