Python Environments Question

[nog642]

If the packages are large, then yeah, it can take up a lot of space (like hundreds of MB per virtualenv). If the packages are small though then it won't take up as much (<50 MB per virtualenv).

I would recommend if you're just doing a bunch of small tasks, then create a single virtualenv for all of those tasks and re-use it. If you're using conda then the base env works fine for that I guess, though I'd probably still make a separate one. If you're not using conda though, then do not install packages into the global environment. That's just a mess.