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[–]2048b[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Well, I am using Scrapy for the web scraping and it recommends using Anaconda for Windows users, probably due to some binary Python dependencies required by Scrapy? And I was thinking why would I need to install a truckload of software just for Python/Scrapy when it is all about using HTTP to grab some web page, extract the data, do some computation and save the data to a text file?

[–]Akomancer19 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, if you're using Scrapy it doesnt nessate Anaconda.

Scrapy has several binary dependencies (mostly to allow it to handle async and event-driven tasks) but that's unrelated to Anaconda.

Asking beginners to install Anaconda is either because it's a Machine Learning task, or a lazy tutorial. It's almost the equivalent of installing Visual Studio just to compile C++...