Freezing Python’s Dependency Hell in 2018 Excellent advice. Excepot for the "Don't use Anaconda." Yes. It's a big download. Odds are good you'll need most of it. So. Just do it now. The (miniconda + environment.yml) as an entry point is really good. The "rely on people to actually …

The context is an ongoing question about optimization -- not my strong suit -- and the SciPy algorithms for this. See Scipy.optimization.anneal Problems for some additional confusion over simple things.

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However, firing up Python, NumPy, SciPy and figuring out which solver to use is not …