Conda Basics

Quiz your understanding of the basic condacommands.

• What conda Python environment is activated and what do you know about it?
  • Answer: conda info
• What are the locations of all conda environments you currently have locally, on your laptop or in the cloud, for example in your SageMaker Studio Lab account?
  • Answer: conda env list
• How can you deactivate the currently activated environment?
  • Answer: conda deactivate
• How can you activate an existing environment, for example the studiolab environment?
  • Answer: conda activate studiolab
• How can you create a new virtual environment named my-special-env?
  • Answer: conda create --name my-special-env
• How can you create a virtual environment, called my-special-env from a .yml file called special_requirements.yml?
  • Answer:

  conda env create --name my-special-env --file='special_requirements.yml'

• How can you find out what packages are installed in the activated environment?
  • Answer: pip list
• How do you deactivate the current conda environment?
  • Answer: conda deactivate