I’m doing an intro course to coding with Python and we’re supposed to install Python and Jupyter, the recommendation is to install Anaconda.

I saw in the software manager that I already have Python3 installed and that it cannot be removed. Can I still install Anaconda additionally or will this fuck things up somehow? Or should I just install Jupyter Notebook?

I’m sorry if this is a dumb question, I’m a bit lost :P

  • Piatro@programming.devEnglish
    3·
    8 days ago

    I work professionally providing some of these tools and I get lost with all the variations so you’re not alone. You generally don’t want to mess with the “system” or “preinstalled” version of python on your system as it has a chance of breaking things. Anaconda or similar tools will package their own version so if you mess those up you can just delete it and reinstall it without breaking anything else. Virtual environments are definitely the way to go but get 10 python developers in a room and they’ll give you 10 different virtual environment tool recommendations.

  • slurp@programming.dev
    3·
    8 days ago

    You can install it without issue. There might be an issue if you set it to be your default Python 3 installation but that should be the only potential issue.

    The other commenter isn’t wrong but it might also be better to use Anaconda so your setup better matches what the course expects.

  • anon5621@lemmy.ml
    12·
    8 days ago

    Just use virtualenv module with visual code,anaconda is too much for ur use case