# USE1.5.3 Conda environments

Some languages such as python require modules or packages.
Usually these are managed by specialized software environments such as conda.
The benefit of these is that a user can install packages and they are only available for a single user.

## Requrements

* [[skill-tree:use:1:5:1:b]]

## Learning Outcomes

* Understand what conda environments are for 
* Understand the difference between a module system and conda environment
* Discuss how such an environment can be constructed and what dependencies it has 
* Prepare a conda enironment for basic python packages
* Analyse the loading time for a conda environment for different file storage location