MDS Conda Python Environment

The MDS Installation Guide has a section on the Python setup. After you install miniforge3, you can install the packages we had you install from the guide using. In the installation guide, we had you run this in the base conda environment. By the end of this course, you should know how to create, activate, and install these packages in a separate environment.

conda install python=3.11 pandas jupyterlab jupyterlab-git jupyterlab-spellchecker otter-grader

You can choose to manually curate an environment.yml file as such:

name: mds-base
channels:
  - conda-forge
dependencies:
  - conda
  - python=3.12
  - pandas
  - jupyterlab
  - jupyterlab-git
  - jupyterlab-spellchecker
  - otter-grader

This is a great base reference file for all the classes you will need in MDS.