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Creating a new environment allows you to have full control over the Python version, the selection of libraries, and the specific versions, too. Python environments can then be engaged and disengaged freely, enabling a wide-variety of specific uses including CPU compute and even GPU acceleration.

Below is a cartoon created with chatGPT 4o, representing a python environment by a tool shed, and python packages installed in this environment by the various tools.

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Load the Package and Environment Manager

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