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kevin
kevin

Reputation: 1157

Duplicate Python Installations

I had a manual installed python 2.7.5 version.

And since I need to use some statistical packages, I found anaconda to be more convenient, and installed anaconda, which include python 2.7.6

I have the following questions:

  1. do I essentially need to remove/uninstall the previous manually installed version to avoid potential dependency problems?

Was trying to remove, but not successful so far, any hints? I followed suggestions on this board: How to uninstall Python 2.7 on a Mac OS X 10.6.4?, but find no luck yet.

  1. will the previously downloaded/installed packages still work in anaconda, e.g., I launched NLTK in anaconda's python, and the previously downloaded corpuses are still there installed?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 353

Answers (1)

eugecm
eugecm

Reputation: 1249

You should use virtualenv. Virtualenv allows you to create a virtual python environment for each project, so you can have different libraries for different projects, this includes different python versions.

Upvotes: 1

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