# Accessing lambda stack libraries from Tensorflow

**URL:** <https://deeptalk.lambda.ai/t/accessing-lambda-stack-libraries-from-tensorflow/646>\
**Category:** Technical Help\
**Created:** [December 1, 2018, 3:06am UTC](https://deeptalk.lambda.ai/t/accessing-lambda-stack-libraries-from-tensorflow/646 "2018-12-01T03:06:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![Aetius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c2a13f/32.png) [@Aetius](https://deeptalk.lambda.ai/u/Aetius)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2018, 3:06am UTC](https://deeptalk.lambda.ai/t/accessing-lambda-stack-libraries-from-tensorflow/646/1 "2018-12-01T03:06:40Z")

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I’m new to both Tensorbook and Ubuntu. I’ve installed Pycharm and run a hello-world program. I tried adding “import tensorflow” to that program, only to receive an error saying that the library was not recognized. I’m guessing that there’s an environment variable I need to set somewhere. Can someone give me some pointers on where I should do that, such that it persists from session to session?

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**Author:** ![leonnowsden](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/deeptalk.lambda.ai/leonnowsden/32/129_2.png) [@leonnowsden](https://deeptalk.lambda.ai/u/leonnowsden)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2018, 4:37pm UTC](https://deeptalk.lambda.ai/t/accessing-lambda-stack-libraries-from-tensorflow/646/2 "2018-12-02T16:37:09Z")

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probably something went wrong with Pycharm.

try

> python3 your\_file\_name\_in\_the\_correct\_dir.py