Making NEST importable from Python Kernel

[JavierGOrdonnez]

I finally got NEST installed properly.

~/.venv/bin/python3 -c "import nest" works with python, python3, and python3.9 ( which are all the python executables available in ~/.venv/bin/ folder), which are the default python (i.e. what shows when doing which python(3).

Nevertheless, this does not seem to work from inside the Jupyter Kernel:

[JavierGOrdonnez]

import sys
sys.executable

yields '/home/jovyan/.venv/bin/python', which is the same as I get in the terminal when doing which python.

In the terminal I can run python -c "import nest" successfully.
However, the same comand (with !) in the Jupyter Notebook, or simply import nest inside the Jupyter Notebook, leads to ModuleNotFoundError.

[JavierGOrdonnez]

So I believe the issue is that NEST is automatically added to the python3.8 installation, but the default python in the IPyKernel is 3.9, and that one does not have NEST in the path? Well, actually, that python seems to find it when doing python -c "import nest" in the terminal, so the 3.8 - 3.9 python version/executable is probably not the issue.

[JavierGOrdonnez]

From terminal, it also works to import it using ipython: ipython3 -c "import nest"

[JavierGOrdonnez]

Another option could be to install the package through conda. However, I do not know how feasible that is from the current structure (which uses a python venv and pip)