Anaconda does not play nice with others, it wants to be in complete control of the environment. It does some nonstandard things with library paths and initialization. To have success with Anaconda, thinly way I have succeeded is to utilize the optional arguments to the the Python Init() statement. You must use both the Python Sys Path() and Path() arguments. The first takes the sys.path as the specific version of Python sees it, and is in the form of a JSL list.