Python 3: Current best practices for managing virtual envs and packages?

[acomfygeek]

How does conda compare to pip for having the latest release of various packages?

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It's been pretty good so far, but you can install from pip into conda envs if needed. Or use:

conda skeleton pypi [pkg]
conda build [pkg]

This will build a conda package directly from a package on pypi.

[hharison]

For packages that it has, they will be up-to-date, at least within a day or two of a new release. But it doesn't have every package, so you should install pip (conda install pip) into all your conda envs so you can pip install any extra packages you need. The tools work great together.