Using Openroad within a conda environment

[Akilax0]

Can I direct openroad -python interpreter to use the python version installed in a conda environment? I have all the dependencies to use Openroad & circuit Ops for ML Ops installed in this environment, so need openroad to detect those packages as well.

[maliberty]

You can't change the python interpreter as it is compiled in. You can set the PYTHONPATH to make packages loadable.

[Akilax0]

Been trying to load as such but still uses the default installed python. But won't use the conda installed one.

The conda installed python version is Python 3.12.3

[maliberty]

You are showing the python version which is not changeable. I was referring to package loading

[Akilax0]

Okay does that mean even though Python version is not changeable, we can have a conda environment with required packages installed with same python version to be used with PYTHONPATH

[maliberty]

I'm hoping so

[Akilax0]

This works! Thanks