Anaconda vs. EPD Enthought vs. manual installation of Python

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What are the relative merits / downsides of various Python bundles (EPD / Anaconda) vs. a manual install?

I have installed EPD academic, and I have no issues with it. It provides more packages that I think I will ever need, and it is very easy to update using enpkg enstaller. The EPD academic licence requires yearly renewal however and the free version does not do updates as easily.

At the moment I really only use a handful of packages such as Pandas, NumPy, SciPy, matplotlib, IPython, Statsmodels and their respective dependencies.

For such limited use am I better off with manual install and pip install --upgrade "package" or do the bundles offer anything over and above this?

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How can I make a time delay in Python?

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I would like to know how to put a time delay in a Python script.

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Answer #1

import time
time.sleep(5)   # Delays for 5 seconds. You can also use a float value.

Here is another example where something is run approximately once a minute:

import time
while True:
    print("This prints once a minute.")
    time.sleep(60) # Delay for 1 minute (60 seconds).

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Answer #2

You can use the sleep() function in the time module. It can take a float argument for sub-second resolution.

from time import sleep
sleep(0.1) # Time in seconds

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How to delete a file or folder in Python?

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How do I delete a file or folder in Python?

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Answer #1

os.remove() removes a file.
os.rmdir() removes an empty directory.
shutil.rmtree() deletes a directory and all its contents.

Path objects from the Python 3.4+ pathlib module also expose these instance methods:

pathlib.Path.unlink() removes a file or symbolic link.
pathlib.Path.rmdir() removes an empty directory.

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Olivia Lehnman

Milan | 2023-03-24

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Shanghai | 2023-03-24

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Munchen | 2023-03-24

I was preparing for my coding interview, thanks for clarifying this - Anaconda vs. EPD Enthought vs. manual installation of Python in Python is not the simplest one. Checked yesterday, it works!