I know that a very similar question has been asked there, but I think my issue is different.
I have just installed Anaconda2 following the Anaconda documentation steps (downloading and executing the sh script), then re launching the shell. I had a previously installed python version on /usr/bin, which was version 3.4.3. I have Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS.
I have created an environment which should run on python 2.7
conda create --name myenvpy2 python=2
source activate myenvpy2
If I look at my path, I have the following
echo $PATH
/home/gvo/anaconda2/envs/myenvpy2/bin:/home/gvo/anaconda2/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:...
On /home/gvo/anaconda2/envs/myenvpy2/bin I have the correct version of python
ls -l
python -> python2.7
And
./python --version
Python 2.7.12 :: Continuum Analytics, Inc.
Therefore, when running simply python I would expect the same result, since this folder contains a python and is the first of the $PATH variable. However :
python --version
Python 3.4.3
This effectively seems to be the /usr/bin version of Python
>>> import sys
>>> print (sys.executable)
/usr/bin/python3
I don't understand why, despite a python can be found in the first folder of the path, it goes through another version of Python, found in a later folder.
Please note that with a python=3 environment created and sourced, it indeed uses the correct python version installed by anaconda, which adds a lot to my confusion.
python --version
Python 3.5.2 :: Continuum Analytics, Inc.
Do you have any clue?
