Jupyter command `jupyter-nbconvert` not found in VS Code on Win10

I was trying to export my jupyter notebook in the VS Code to html or pdf. However when I exported it, the process automatically breaked and throwed exception as Jupyter command jupyter-nbconvert not found. I have gone through version check and found that nbconvert and jupyter were installed. Therefore I dont know why the process would failed.

Environment data

• VS Code version: 1.52.1
• Jupyter Extension version (available under the Extensions sidebar): 6.1.4(core)
• Python Extension version (available under the Extensions sidebar): 3.7.5
• OS (Windows | Mac | Linux distro) and version: Win 10
• Python and/or Anaconda version: 3.7.5

Expected behaviour

Convert the jupyter notebook to html

Actual behaviour

the process breaks

Steps to reproduce:

Logs

Output for Jupyter in the Output panel (View→Output, change the drop-down the upper-right of the Output panel to Jupyter)

`

D:\Python\Python37\python.exe c:\Users\木辛.vscode\extensions\ms-toolsai.jupyter-2020.12.414227025\pythonFiles\pyvsc-run-isolated.py jupyter nbconvert c:\Users\木辛\AppData\Local\Temp\5e90ef96-fd0c-44c3-851a-72578f6922b4\Lab04-11711203.ipynb --to html --output tmp-8180nJyFVOI4wzPo.html --output-dir ~\AppData\Local\Temp --debug D:\Python\Python37\python.exe c:\Users\木辛.vscode\extensions\ms-toolsai.jupyter-2020.12.414227025\pythonFiles\pyvsc-run-isolated.py jupyter nbconvert c:\Users\木辛\AppData\Local\Temp\5e90ef96-fd0c-44c3-851a-72578f6922b4\Lab04-11711203.ipynb --to html --output tmp-8180nJyFVOI4wzPo.html --output-dir ~\AppData\Local\Temp --debug Error 2021-01-12 11:14:22: Export failed [Error: Traceback (most recent call last): File “c:\Users\木辛.vscode\extensions\ms-toolsai.jupyter-2020.12.414227025\pythonFiles\pyvsc-run-isolated.py”, line 26, in <module> runpy.run_module(module, run_name=“main”, alter_sys=True) File “D:\Python\Python37\lib\runpy.py”, line 205, in run_module return _run_module_code(code, init_globals, run_name, mod_spec) File “D:\Python\Python37\lib\runpy.py”, line 96, in _run_module_code mod_name, mod_spec, pkg_name, script_name) File “D:\Python\Python37\lib\runpy.py”, line 85, in _run_code exec(code, run_globals) File “C:\Users\木辛\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python37\site-packages\jupyter.py”, line 4, in <module> main() File “C:\Users\木辛\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python37\site-packages\jupyter_core\command.py”, line 247, in main command = _jupyter_abspath(subcommand) File “C:\Users\木辛\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python37\site-packages\jupyter_core\command.py”, line 134, in _jupyter_abspath ‘Jupyter command {} not found.’.format(jupyter_subcommand) Exception: Jupyter command jupyter-nbconvert not found.

at a.executeCommand (c:\Users\木辛\.vscode\extensions\ms-toolsai.jupyter-2020.12.414227025\out\client\extension.js:1:448888)
at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:94:5)
at async a.export (c:\Users\木辛\.vscode\extensions\ms-toolsai.jupyter-2020.12.414227025\out\client\extension.js:49:253800)
at async _.exportToFormat (c:\Users\木辛\.vscode\extensions\ms-toolsai.jupyter-2020.12.414227025\out\client\extension.js:49:252766)
at async _.performExport (c:\Users\木辛\.vscode\extensions\ms-toolsai.jupyter-2020.12.414227025\out\client\extension.js:49:251809)
at async _.export (c:\Users\木辛\.vscode\extensions\ms-toolsai.jupyter-2020.12.414227025\out\client\extension.js:49:251323)
at async m.export (c:\Users\木辛\.vscode\extensions\ms-toolsai.jupyter-2020.12.414227025\out\client\extension.js:32:265964)]

`

[IanMatthewHuff]

@Jupiter-ZZC I believe that I didn’t specify that command right, you could try that again with a -m after python.exe. So python.exe -m jupyter nbconvert ....

A couple more quick things, could you get the version of nbconvert that you are working with? After pulling that you could try an uninstall and reinstall of nbconvert.

python -m pip uninstall nbconvert
python -m pip install nbconvert -U

If you have a bad version of nbconvert that might get you into a working state.

[avinashnelluri]

@Jupiter-ZZC

I had a similar issue. In my case the solution was to to launch powershell as administrator in order to (re)install nbconvert. I usually use my pc from a restricted user account and so pip could not install the packages into the folder C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python38\site-packages\ but into the folder C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python38\Scripts\. There however it could not be found either by VS Code or python.exe.

Thank you @jf20191031 This resolved my issue.