4.3 Creating a Conda Environment

Conda environments let you create isolated spaces for each project, preventing version conflicts between dependencies.

Create a New Environment

To create an environment named myenv with the default Python version:

conda create --name myenv python

To specify a particular Python version (for example, Python 3.11):

conda create --name myenv python=3.11

Activate the Environment

conda activate myenv

Once activated, any Conda command will apply only to this environment.

Deactivate the Environment

conda deactivate

This returns you to the base Conda environment.

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