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I am using Python3 for my projects. However, the Google Cloud Datalab runs with Python2.7.x by default. How do I change to Python3?

user3898418
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Datalab only supports Python 2 for now unfortunately.

One thing you can try is install the Pydatalab lib, which is a Jupyter extension that adds support for a number of Google Cloud Platform services to your Jupyter notebooks. That library supports Python 3.

yelsayed
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  • I see that Datalab now has Python3 support. However, when I install a package such as ```!pip install bson``` it only installs for python 2. How can I change the environment to python3 for a notebook? – Jas Oct 17 '17 at 20:48
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It looks like that they support Python 3 now: https://github.com/googledatalab/datalab/issues/902 .

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  • Actually, I've customized Datalab image to enable Python3 and add some libraries. See https://hub.docker.com/r/vochicong/datalab-nlp/ and https://github.com/vochicong/datalab-nlp! – vochicong Jun 18 '17 at 23:26