Pyowa

The Iowa Python Users Group

The Topic

Conda is a fantastic resource for Python developers. It has made code management with geospatial and scientific libraries across multiple operating systems much less of a headache for me.

This talk will go over some tips about getting setup with Conda as well as some “Did you know?” type topics including:

Conda can help make cross-platform development environment management simpler?
- I can easily have GDAL 1.11 and GDAL 2.2 installed on Windows, Linux, and macOS all with separate environments for Python 2.7 and 3.6?
- I can specify in the environment file the Python version I used, install system binaries, and pip install packages for the environment?
Wait, I can still use pip to install in the Python environments too?
You mean I don’t have to have sudo privileges to install binaries without having to compile the code myself (GDAL, netCDF4, etc …)?
Using the conda-forge channel is great for scientific and geospatial packages?
I can insert in environment specific setup scripts on activation?

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