Creating environment for Spyder

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There is an option to create virtual environments in Anaconda with required Python version. conda create -n myenv python=3.4 anaconda This will create virtual environment to virtualenv. To activate it : source activate myenv # (in linux) activate myenv # (in windows - note that you should be in your c:\anaconda2 directory) To check the current environment has been changed: conda info -e And now to run Spyder with Python 3.4 just type: spyder