What Is Anaconda

This section provides a quick introduction on Anaconda, which is a powerful open source environment and packager manager that allows you to install multiple environments for multiple versions of software packages and their dependencies and switching easily between them.

What Is Anaconda? Anaconda, also called Conda, is a powerful open source environment and package manager that allows you to install multiple environments for multiple versions of software packages and their dependencies and switching easily between them. Conda was originally developed to solve difficult Python package management challenges.

Anaconda is included in two distribution packages:

For most users, download and install Miniconda is good enough. If you need any additional packages, you can download and install them individually from the Conda package repository.

For more information, visit Conda Website at https://www.anaconda.com.

Table of Contents

 About This Book

 Running Python Code Online

 Python on macOS Computers

 Python on Linux Computers

 Built-in Data Types

 Variables, Operations and Expressions

 Statements - Execution Units

 Function Statement and Function Call

 Iterators, Generators and List Comprehensions

 Classes and Instances

 Modules and Module Files

 Packages and Package Directories

 "sys" and "os" Modules

 "pathlib" - Object-Oriented Filesystem Paths

 "pip" - Package Installer for Python

 SciPy.org - Python Libraries for Science

 pandas - Data Analysis and Manipulation

Anaconda - Python Environment Manager

What Is Anaconda

 Install Miniconda 3

 Introduction to Conda Environment

 Conda Configuration Files

 Share Conda Environment with Others

 Manage Packages in Conda Environment

 Run Conda Environment Command in Background

 Jupyter Notebook and JupyterLab

 References

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