How to use Anaconda base environment in Pycharm?

Question

I am trying to set up base environment of Anaconda to use in PyCharm. There is no such option in the settings (either "system interpreter" or "create new environment"; I had to use "system interpreter"). I managed to setup "activate.bat" for the terminal, but "base" environment is not activated during debug or usual runs - as a result I get errors (compared to just run in Anaconda console - everything is fine). What should I do?

Answer 1

You need to select python.exe from the base Anaconda, e.g.

It's also a better choice to use 2019.1 EAP build, as there's a fix to conda activation in the terminal there. You don't really need to select activate.bat as a terminal.

Answer 2

I'm a Mac OS user (Catalina).

I found my Conda base environment here: /Users/donald/anaconda3/bin/python3

Fortunately pip3 and Conda (base) work together pretty seamlessly with this setup. So this environment should show up as "Python 3.8 (base)" (or similar) separate from your other Conda environments.

Mac OS New Project Interpreter Setup

Answer 3

I am using macOS and I have got the base python environment in the following location

/opt/anaconda3/bin/python3

Just add in the location in the interpreter section under existing environment option