[mlthoughts2018]

1. Argument from authority doesn’t mean anything to me. I also don’t believe creating Django or running a Python consultancy endow someone with especially useful opinions of Python packaging tooling. (Not that the author isn’t knowledgeable, just you seem to think there’s an A implies B relationship between those two items and having good opinions about Python packaging, and there’s not).

2. Conda is quite widely used outside of data science. It’s for example part of Anaconda enterprise offerings used by huge banks, government agencies, universities, etc., on large projects often with no use cases related to data science. Conda itself has no logical connection with data science, it’s just a package & environment manager.

In each of my last 4 jobs, 2 at large Fortune 500 ecommerce companies, conda has been the environment manager used for all internal Python development. Still use pip a lot within conda envs, but conda is the one broader constant.

[m000z0rz]

> huge banks, government agencies, universities

> large Fortune 500 e-commerce companies

Sorry, but argument from authority doesn't mean anything to me.

In all seriousness though, you literally did not provide any logical reasons to think conda is better.

[mlthoughts2018]

Giving a counterexample is not argument from authority. I did not respond to the parent comment to discuss any feature of conda, only to dispel the wrong claim that only mostly data science projects rely on it.

[diminoten]

I love when people claim to not care about arguments from authority. "Sorry doc, I don't care about your medical degree or years of experience!"

Yes you do.