Is the interpreter that comes with Anaconda different?

[helendamdam]

So, I have anaconda installed on my OSX machine but have never used it. My experience with python has
been exclusively via PyCharm using 2.7.10 -- today, I wanted to do something using Python 3 for the
first time so I created a virtual environment and tried to link the interpreter that comes with anaconda
to it - but when I did PyCharm told me there was a problem with my interpreter. Geometry Dash Lite
I know I can create one of those conda environemnts and use Python 3 that way but at this point, I'm
just trying to get a better understandnig of what's happening. Why would PyCharm give me that error?
What is the conda environment doing that is different than a virtual environment?

Appreciate any insight--!

buran write Sep-25-2025, 03:02 AM:
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[noisefloor]

Anaconda has its place and makes sense under certain circumstance. But if you don't know for yourself a reason to use Anaconda - don't use it. Simply install Python as provided by the Python Software Foundation, which comes by default with pip and venv.

Gruß, noisefloor