Blender cannot find the python executable

[icyjayd]

I have hard linked Blender's python installation to a virtual environment. It works in blender; I can import all the necessary packages, but when I try to use this package to manipulate blender from a jupyter notebook it tells me it can't find the python binaries. Likewise, when I print(sys.executable) in Blender it returns None even though print(sys.executable) in the same environment in Anaconda Prompt returns the correct path. Checking os.environ['PATH'] in Blender I see that the path containing python.exe is included. How do I force Blender to find the python executable?