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What is an “official version of python”?

Anaconda is a distribution, which to my understanding, includes an official version of Python. Anaconda includes its own way of doing things to solve a lot of common problems people face.

Personally, I don’t use Anaconda any longer because I ran into so many issues over so many years with conda, their package manager. I’m also almost competent enough to deal with a lot of the problems that anaconda tries to solve. This likely isn’t the case for beginners.

Virtual environments are great and, I’d argue, what people should be using 99% of the time.



What do you use in place of Anaconda ?


Homebrew, pip, venv


^ seconding this




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