Question on environments

[ubaldot]

I have seen that with hatch one can create virtual environments, but I wonder how does it differ from e.g.

python3 -m venv /path/to/new/virtual/environment

or

conda create --name myenv

[ofek]

https://hatch.pypa.io/latest/plugins/environment/virtual/

[ubaldot]

… ok, still don’t get the difference.

[ofek]

virtualenv better then stdlib's venv, Conda is its own thing (there is a plugin though https://github.com/OldGrumpyViking/hatch-conda)

[ubaldot]

Thanks for the tip about hatch-conda.
Btw, I am using conda. Is it safe to pip install hatch-conda from a conda environment?

[ubaldot]

I could not resist and I did it ahahahaha.
It worked! The command hatch show env returns

┌─────────┬─────────┐
│ Name    │ Type    │
├─────────┼─────────┤
│ default │ virtual │
├─────────┼─────────┤
│ myenv   │ conda   │
└─────────┴─────────┘