Keras installation with conda issues

I have an issue with the installation of Keras with conda package manager. There are several channels where keras is hosted, the most popular one being conda-forge. When using cond-forge, a script is added and launched when activating a virtual environment where the variable KERAS_BACKEND is set to theano by default, overwriting any configuration in the keras.json file.

The second issue come when installing keras with the default channel conda install keras. Here again, an environment variable KERAS_BACKEND is set to theano by default, but I did not found where it is set. The only workaround I found was to tweak the keras.backend.__init__.py file and commenting the environment variable import.

My question is then, do you work with conda to package keras or is it their own initiative ?

[shekhar-banerjee96]

I am facing the same problem. At first i used this command conda install -c conda-forge keras tensorflow but the command prompt closes abruptly diplaying this code

python %CONDA_PREFIX%\etc\keras\load_config.py > temp.txt
set /p KERAS_BACKEND=<temp.txt
del temp.txt

:: Try to use the default Keras backend.
:: Fallback to Theano if it fails (Theano always works).
python -c "import keras" 1> 2>&1
if errorlevel 1 (
    ver > nul
    set "KERAS_BACKEND=theano"
    python -c "import keras" 1> 2>&1

I used this link to solve the problem ,

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53483685/keras-breaks-anaconda-prompt?noredirect=1&lq=1

But now none of the conda integrated Ides would open. Could any one explain me what exactly am i missing ??? (VStudio and Jupyter). I am using Anaconda distibution on windows.

[rchiodo]

I believe this is the root cause of an issue we’re having in the VS Code python extension as well: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-python/issues/5259