Features | venv | virtualenv | conda |
---|---|---|---|
Built into Python | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
Requires separate installation | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
Customizable prompts | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
Support for multiple interpreters | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
Data Science Packages | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
Isolate Environments | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Cross-platform | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Version management | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
Dependency resolution | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
Pre-built binaries | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
Environment cloning | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
GUI support | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
Native Pip integration | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
Supports Python 2 | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
Package isolation within environments | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Environment export/import | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
Native handling of wheels | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
User-friendly package management | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
Support for languages other than Python | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
Active community support | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
In this table, a check mark (✓) indicates that the feature is present, while an ‘X’ (✗) shows that the feature is not available.