• onlinepersona@programming.dev
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    3 months ago

    Can anybody explain what conda provides over python + pip or python + poetry? I’ve never needed conda in all my years writing python for various purposes - except data science, but pip install numpy and pip install pandas had me up and running in <1 minute for some test projects.

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    • ikilledlaurapalmer
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      3 months ago

      Do you use venv? Conda gives you that capability (which is absolutely critical with the state of interconnected and complex package relationships) plus a package manager. I’m not sure what conveniences conda may provide over pip/virtualenvs but I imagine there is something that conda gives as an advantage for package publishers. I’d be curious about that myself having not pushed any packages to pypi or a conda repo.