What is the difference between pip and conda?

Question

I know pip is a package manager for python packages. However, I saw the installation on IPython\'s website use conda to install IPython.

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Answer 1

Not to confuse you further, but you can also use pip within your conda environment, which validates the general vs. python specific managers comments above.

conda install -n testenv pip
source activate testenv
pip 

you can also add pip to default packages of any environment so it is present each time so you don't have to follow the above snippet.