Installed module not showing up in Jupyter

Technical Help
#1

Hi I am trying to install a Python module and use it in Jupyter.
Following some other support posts, I used docker-compose exec zipline bash to install the module in the zipline container then I restarted the zipline container using docker-compose restart zipline, and checked that it was still installed, it was. The module does not show up in Jupyter, after restarting the kernel. I also tried restarting the Jupyter service but that did not work either.

What am I doing wrong?

Edit 1.0 I've noticed site-packages is in different locations from Jupyter to the terminal version when I exec into the zipline container.

  • Zipline Container: /opt/conda/lib/python3.6/site-packages/
  • Jupyter: /opt/conda/envs/zipline/lib/python3.6/site-packages/

Edit. 1.5 Based on what I know about Anaconda, the above shows that Jupyter is running Python through Anaconda installed with an environment called: zipline. However when I access the zipline container I do not see any Conda envs other than the base.

Edit 1.6 I found the Zipline env, it is not in the zipline container but in the Jupyter container.

#2

I figured it out: go to the jupyter container, activate the zipline env and install stuff there for it to show up in Jupyter.

#3

The general Jupyter IDE runs inside the jupyter container. So sometimes you can simply do a pip install PACKAGE in the /codeload/ path in the GUI terminal, restart a notebook, & it works. Sometimes you do need the full directions with some version of:

cd /path/to/quantrocket/folder
docker-compose exec zipline bash
pip install PACKAGE
exit
docker-compose restart zipline

I've found this to be the case if I'm doing research in a jupyter notebook (where I've installed the package using !pip install PACKAGE) but then move to a zipline backtest and get an error saying the package isn't installed.