[quote="tfoote, post:12, topic:3874"] There is a level that setting up an alternative python interpreter is a moderately advanced topic and if youre choosing to do that you will need to know and understand what youre doing, and it will inherently take more steps. [/quote] In general I agree with this sentiment, but Anaconda is different. It's easy to install and a lot of people install it because they're told it's "Python, but better" or because it sounds like a neat idea or even just for kicks, without having a clue what it's doing to their system. It's got to the point where I have *at least* one person using Anaconda in every tutorial I run, and they almost never understand why it is making `rospy` usage fail. Having not used it myself the first couple of times this happened took me a while to fix, but now it's got to the point where when someone is having trouble importing `rospy` the first thing I do is open up their `.bashrc` file and look for references to Anaconda. I don't ask them first anymore, either, because a couple of people didn't even remember installing it. Having a good question and answer on answers.ros.org is a good idea, but I think there is benefit in putting a very brief note with a link to it on the rospy tutorial page or somewhere like that. --- [Visit Topic](https://discourse.ros.org/t/should-we-warn-new-users-about-difficulties-with-python-3-and-alternative-python-interpreters/3874/13) or reply to this email to respond. If you do not want to receive messages from ros-users please use the unsubscribe link below. If you use the one above, you will stop all of ros-users from receiving updates. ______________________________________________________________________________ ros-users mailing list ros-users@lists.ros.org http://lists.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users Unsubscribe: