Environment variables in PyCharm Jupyter

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In the standard Python Console or Terminal in PyCharm it is pretty straightforward to set environment variables.

How can you set environment variables for PyCharm's managed Jupyter?

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There is no easy built-in way at the moment, I am afraid. See the corresponding ticket in the JetBrains issue tracker https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/DS-2770 (and vote for it).

The one workaround that comes to mind is to export the desired environment variables in a shell session -> start PyCharm from it -> start the managed server. IDE will inherit the envs from the shell, and the server will inherit them from the IDE.

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You can use a configured Jupyter Server.

  • Open a terminal in PyCharm

  • Export your environment variables in the terminal

    export MY_VARIABLE="its-value"

  • Start a Jupyter Server

    jupyter notebook --no-browser

  • Configure PyCharm to use the server you just started

Note the server URL from the terminal output and then add a server configuration in Languages & Frameworks => Jupyter => Jupyter Servers

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