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Creating custom environments

As mentioned, one of the strengths of Anaconda is its ability to create custom environments, within which we can install specific software versions of both Python and of the various packages. Anaconda is in fact usually available with the pre-installed versions of Python 2.7 and Python 3.7. You can decide to combine specific versions of Python, without incurring the risk of corrupting the default environments. To achieve this, you’ll need to create custom environments.

Let’s assume we want to create a custom environment in which we would like to install the version of Python 3.5 (or another version). Just invoke the conda utility as in the following example:

conda create -n py35 python=3.5

At this point, conda ...