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Re: setting up environment, I love Anaconda for that reason. Wget the installer, run it, all done - you have a fully featured Python environment ready to go, in
by dkersten 13y ago
Re: setting up environment, I love Anaconda for that reason. Wget the installer, run it, all done - you have a fully featured Python environment ready to go, including Numpy, Scipy, Scikit-learn and much more. Running IPython and the IPython Notebook is then trivial.
If you need anything else, you can use their own Conda package manager, or you can just use pip as usual.
- julienchastang 13y ago@dkersten What happens in the scenario where you have other Python distributions on your system? Does Anaconda keep things nicely compartmentalized like a virtualenv?
- msellout 13y agoYes
- dkersten 13y agoYes, Anaconda is completely self-contained (you can actually install it anywhere you like, for example, your home directory) and does not interfere with the rest of your system at all. You can also run virtualenv from Anaconda too, if you want to have isolated Anaconda environments without installing it multiple times (which you could also do, if you wanted..) I like using it to make sure I have a very easy to install consistent environment between the various computers I use (including EC2 instances).