# I can't open the notebooks via IJulia

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/i-cant-open-the-notebooks-via-ijulia/34395
**Category:** General Usage
**Tags:** question, package
**Created:** [February 10, 2020, 2:57am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/i-cant-open-the-notebooks-via-ijulia/34395 "2020-02-10T02:57:55Z")
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### Author: ![stevengj](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/stevengj/32/71_2.png) [@stevengj](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/stevengj)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2020, 3:07pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/i-cant-open-the-notebooks-via-ijulia/34395/4 "2020-02-10T15:07:04Z")

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I observed a similar problem recently, apparently due to a conflict between the Jupyter (actually [Tornado](https://www.tornadoweb.org/en/stable/) IIRC) and Python versions on Windows in the latest Anaconda (Tornado’s code was using an asyncio feature from Python 3.8). Separately, there was a Windows path problem in IJulia’s `notebook()` function that was fixed over the weekend.

Try the following things:

1. Just do `pkg> update`, restart Julia, and try again with `IJulia.notebook()`.

2. Do `pkg> add Conda` and then `julia> import Conda; Conda.update()`, and try again with `IJulia.notebook()`, in hopes that Anaconda has fixed this problem.

3. Do `julia> import Conda; Conda.add("python=3.8")`, and try again with `IJulia.notebook()`. This fixed the problem for me last night.

_Update:_ should be fixed by [unpin Anaconda on Windows by stevengj · Pull Request #170 · JuliaPy/Conda.jl · GitHub](https://github.com/JuliaPy/Conda.jl/pull/170) once this is merged and tagged. The problem was that Conda.jl was pinning Python at 3.6 to fix an issue a couple of years ago, and we forgot to unpin it.

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