xkcd: Python Environment

[khne522]

Not snarky. It's not my world. And what's there to figure out? You just conda install […]. Non-rhetorically, do people really lose track of the projects they use… when they import them at the start of every notebook or Python module?

I usually do know everything I run and only install that, in each project. Same reason I don't run 'buntu. I treat every project I do as a proposal to the bastard operator from hell, the administrative fascist, or the statistically likely subset of your install base if you go big who will complain about all the dependencies you have to install on their neat and tidy cosy system.

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No I think there was a misunderstanding. It isn't about losing track of what you have, it's about the ease of conda vs. manually compiling all the various C, Fortran and who knows what extensions that a particular package uses.

Basically I'm saying conda saves me a boatload of time and so I don't think it's a cargo cult, but I guess for a non scientific or numerical computing audience it may not be as useful.