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Simba
Simba

Reputation: 211

Installing Anaconda while having Python 3.7 already installed

Complete noob here.

I am following MIT 6.0001 Introduction to Computer Science and Programming in Python. The instructor suggests to install Anaconda for this course. But I have Python 3.7 installed in my Windows 10 system already.

While installing Anaconda, I faced some problems which is currently beyond my level of understanding.

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When I checked the box titled "Register Anaconda as my default Python 3.7" the following prompt was shown on the screen.

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I don't know how to proceed further. Please help me understand what these things mean and how will it affect my installation and future workflow. Also, please suggest me best way proceed further.

Upvotes: 6

Views: 18917

Answers (2)

TBS
TBS

Reputation: 21

You have two things you can do:

1.You can just go ahead and say "Ok" You will get anaconda distribution installed alongside your normal python IDLE. Your python installation should still work, like mine it works well.

2.You can also say: "cancel". -Go back to your installed program and uninstall python. . -Then start installation of anaconda.

Everything should run just fine.

Upvotes: 2

eatmeimadanish
eatmeimadanish

Reputation: 3907

Your projects will still work with Anaconda, just make sure you didn't save them inside the Python 3.7 directory.

You want to ADD the path to the environment, this allows you to just type python.exe start.py to run your scripts.

You want Anonconda to be the default interpreter because it is how you will keep your project packages maintained. I would remove the old version, and install Anaconda, but you can technically have both on your system.

Upvotes: 1

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