Importing Virtual Environment Installed Packages into Jupyter Notebook

Question

I want to install the google-cloud-bigquery library into my Jupyter Notebooks project (project located within "EDF Boston" directory). I already downloaded- via my command prompt- the "google-cloud-bigquery" library in my activated virtual environment (see code below)

(venv) C:\Users\Joe\Documents\EDF Boston\venv\Scripts>pip install --upgrade google-cloud-bigquery

The following code block I found online as something to run at the beginning of my code to import the google-cloud-bigquery library into my Jupyter Notebook project. However, when I replace "" with "venv" and run the code, I get a syntax error.

!pip install virtualenv
virtualenv <your-env>
<your-env>\Scripts\activate
<your-env>\Scripts\pip.exe install google-cloud-bigquery

I have tried opening a Jupyter Notebook both from within the virtual environment and from outside of it, but can't get it to work either way.

Answer 1

First, you do not need to use venv to run the Python BigQuery API within your Jupyter Notebook. You can install manually each necessary package using pip , as described in the documentation . After installing the packages, inside your Python code use import package_name to use it within your script.

However, I would like to point that venv is used to create an isolated Python environment, which allows you to isolate project dependencies. According to the documentation , it is advisable to use venv when developing locally with Python. In order to use venv, follow the steps below:

1. Copy your entire Python installation:

   cd your-project python3 -m venv venv

2. Set your shell to use Venv paths

   source venv/bin/activate

3. Now install the packages without affecting other environments:

   pip install --upgrade google-cloud-storage

   pip install --upgrade google-cloud-bigquery

4. If you need to exit the environment:

   deactivate