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### The first step is to verify you are running the Python environment you want.

You can do this by either selecting it in the dropdown at the bottom of VS Code:
The python you're using is picked with the selection dropdown on the bottom left of the VS Code window:

![selector](resources/PythonSelector.png)

Or by running some Python code in VS Code Python terminal:
To verify this version of python supports Jupyter notebooks, start a 'Python: REPL' from the command palette
and then type in the following code:

```python
import sys
sys.version
import jupyter_core
import notebook
jupyter_core.version_info
notebook.version_info
```
If any of these commands fail, the python you have selected doesn't support launching jupyter notebooks.

Failures would look something like:

```
>>> import jupyter
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: No module named jupyter
>>> import notebook
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: No module named notebook
>>>
```

### The second step (if changing the Python version doesn't work) is to install Jupyter
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