Virtual environments and package managers

What is a virtual environment?

• A dedicated folder for storing all Python dependencies, separate from others on the system.
• When you activate then environment, it tells Python to look in the folder first.

What is the difference between conda and pip?

• conda can include code written in other languages (best for Windows)
• pip typically requires code from other languages to be compiled on installation (more work, OK on Linux)

Links

• Set libmamba as conda solver