activating then deactivating an environment changes order of PATH

Tyler Drobbin

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Jul 12, 2016, 9:54:33 PM7/12/16

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Hello! when i activate an environment then deactivate it, the order of paths in my PATH variable changes. In particular the conda path moves from the end to the beginning:

Tylers-MacBook-Pro:lib tylerdrobbin$ echo $PATH
/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/Users/tylerdrobbin/anaconda/bin

Tylers-MacBook-Pro:lib tylerdrobbin$ source activate main
discarding /Users/tylerdrobbin/anaconda/bin from PATH
prepending /Users/tylerdrobbin/anaconda/envs/main/bin to PATH

(main)Tylers-MacBook-Pro:lib tylerdrobbin$ echo $PATH
/Users/tylerdrobbin/anaconda/envs/main/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin

(main)Tylers-MacBook-Pro:lib tylerdrobbin$ source deactivate
discarding /Users/tylerdrobbin/anaconda/envs/main/bin from PATH

Tylers-MacBook-Pro:lib tylerdrobbin$ echo $PATH
/Users/tylerdrobbin/anaconda/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin

If I run python now, it will run the conda distribution of python instead of my default system python.

Is there a way to ensure that the order in the original PATH is preserved after deactivating an environment? Thanks a lot!

Best,

Tyler

Tyler Drobbin

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Jul 12, 2016, 9:57:48 PM7/12/16

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Also, I'm using OSX 10.11.5

Michael Sarahan

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Jul 12, 2016, 10:11:49 PM7/12/16

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Strangely, this is one area where we do things better on Windows right now. https://github.com/conda/conda/pull/2917 implemented this behavior and is in conda 4.1.6. Our Conda tech lead wants to port that to the bash scripts, but hasn't had time yet. Please raise an issue on the conda github repo.

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Tyler Drobbin

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Jul 12, 2016, 10:24:49 PM7/12/16

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Got it. Now that you mention it - I use conda on windows at work and haven't noticed this happening there. I'll open an issue on github. Thanks!

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