Using advanced conda info and settings

There are many layers to conda, and we've just covered the ones you will use first. There are many other operations that you'll find extremely useful and that will, in turn, enable you to work much more easily.

Let's cover how you can find out where conda is looking for its operations and set up a settings file to keep your preferred way of using conda intact through multiple sessions.

Using conda info to see configuration information

You will find yourself troubleshooting and needing to reference where conda looks for certain settings, and for this, conda info has you covered.

Let's run conda info in our ch_3_env environment and see what we get. Some of the output here has been omitted to keep the code a bit more concise:

conda info 
    active environment : base
    active env location : C:\Users\Dan\anaconda3
       user config file...