conda create with python2.7 base still creates python3.6 environment by default

[mattf-apache]

If one downloads Miniconda2-latest-MacOSX-x86_64.sh and runs it, you get as expected a python2.7 base environment. Go ahead and activate it, then invoke conda create with a few packages, but without specifying a version of python. It builds a python3.6 environment.

I could not find documentation one way or the other, but I did expect it to give me another python2.7 environment, especially since I had activated the base environment before invoking conda create.

[marcelotrevisani]

Basically conda will try to get the latest package of all of those which you are trying to install.
However, if you want a conda environment with a specific python you can do

conda create --name env-test python=2.7 

[marcelotrevisani]

Did I clarify your question? May I close this or do you want to discuss it a bit further?

[jcrist]

This has nothing to do with conda-pack, this has to do with usage of conda. If you want to create a python environment with a specific version of Python, you need to specify that manually as @marcelotrevisani said above. Closing.

[mattf-apache]

So be it. This was to suggest that a more intuitive behavior was to give the same version as the base, by default. But it's also reasonable for conda to always use the latest, regardless of base.
Thanks for consideration.

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