Python package management is FUBAR about alderman_machine HOT 6 OPEN

Assigning this to both Thomas and me because we need to figure out proper Python package management to make this repo replicable.

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I'm managing my env through conda—assuming it's OK with you, I can upload the relevant environment.txt to the repo and we can share that going forward. Also happy to transition back to pip/virtualenv if there's benefit to doing so.

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Yeah that works, honestly anything is better than the unworkable mess that is currently on the repo.

The big thing is to create a python script that automatically installs any package that's required for the project. As long as conda can automatically install a set of packages (eg. if it automatically updates to install everything inside of environment.txt) then that's perfect.

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Cool cool—Conda can (in theory) replicate a given environment (w/ versions pinned down) from the environment.txt. Doesn't actually work that cleanly in practice, but I don't think we're using any especially unusual packages. Importantly: I'm fairly sure everything we use is on Conda, so we don't have to mix that and PyPI.

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Perfect, I've spent way too much time trying to make venv work, but I'm not an expert programmer.

If you think you can do it, feel free to set up a PR when you have a chance. Otherwise, if you got a good guide to how to use conda for project management I can do it over the weekend.

Right now I want to close in on getting the new DiD and Bernie stone case study results together so I can pivot to primarily working on the GRE.

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@tmalthouse any progress on this?

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