“pip Installs Packages”(recursive) is a Python package installer. It downloads and installs packages which we need.
It is by far the best package manager in terms of package availability (235,000 packages are available). It makes package maintenance a lot easier for developers.
It doesn’t support multiple versions of the same package installed, so we can’t maintain two projects using different versions of the same package.
We’ll often face Compilation Errors as it uses our compiler for many packages, which could be incompatible and also compiles everything from the source.
It can’t differentiate between various python versions, Python 2, Python 3, Python 3.5 or 3.6?
It doesn’t have an In-built Virtual Environment Management System.
conda:
It is a packaging tool and an installer that aims to do more than what pip does.
It allows us to maintain and use different versions of the same package. We can easily work with any of the versions of Python.
The tendency of getting compiler errors is very low as it compiles packages before publishing to the package repository.
1,500+ packages are published and maintained in the PyPI. The installation process is a lot easier and also optimizes the user experience.
It is not only a package manager but also an environment manager. It can create a virtual environment and also has an In-built Virtual Environment Management System.
It isolates different python versions and also the package versions so they don’t interact with each other.
The compilation of packages is expensive in terms of both space and time.
