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Installed Anaconda today, run conda install -c conda-forge scrapy to install it, with no apparent issues. If I try to use any scrapy commands, however, I get a "Fatal error in launcher: Unable to create process", with the right path for scrapy, but the wrong one for python.exe.

where python finds the correct path. The %PATH% variable includes said directory. I tried installing within a virtual environment, with no difference in result. Not quite sure what to do, now.

Previous questions from other users received no valid answers:

How to fix "Fatal error in launcher: Unable to create process using *path*/scrapy.exe" in anaconda?

This is marked as a duplicate, but it's a different question from the original and doesn't have a functional solution.

Getting error: Fatal Error Installing Scrapy tutorial

This suggests installing with pip, which I'd rather not, but may fall back to if necessary.

Thanks in advance.

Eptagon
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  • Please do consider posting the _actual error message_, since details matter – mdaniel Oct 12 '19 at 16:33
  • @MatthewLDaniel It was exactly the same as the one in both the included links, except for the path to scrapy. Ended up installing via pip, as the second user did. – Eptagon Oct 12 '19 at 16:58

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