I'm by no means a Python expert but I recently had a small project where I needed to convert the output of an SQL query to a parquet file, and I settled on usin

I'm by no means a Python expert but I recently had a small project where I needed to convert the output of an SQL query to a parquet file, and I settled on using fastparquet to do so. I first tried using pip under a venv to install it, and I ran into dependency hell. I needed various dev libs and build-essential on my ubuntu box and I ultimately couldn't get it to compile llvmlite correctly (linker issuers and way too many LLVM versions). I finally gave up and tried miniconda on a fresh box per some advice here on HN. I simply installed it, ran "conda create -n myenv fastparquet" and it just worked first try. No extra effort involved.