Q:

Conda and python are misconfigured, not sure what is wrong

I am trying to setup a local conda environment and ran conda create -n hw3 python=3 and source activate hw3. It seems from running conda info things are working. However when I try to run python --version, I get Python 2.7 even though I expect 3.6 and I'm not sure why. Any ideas? I suspect path problems but not sure what's wrong. My $PATH is this: /Users/michael/miniconda3/envs/hw3/bin:/Users/michael/miniconda3/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/Library/TeX/texbin:/Applications/Wireshark.app/Contents/MacOS

A:

Apparently running conda install python=3.6 makes the conda env work and points python to Python 3.6.2 :: Continuum Analytics, Inc.
It also installed the py36_1 version of pip which is nice. That way the whole environment was on the same page (same version of Python).

