

Ultimately, you don't want to mess with your base environment, so best practice is to have the latest version there. What is installed in the base environment is relatively fixed once installed. Miniconda + Anaconda environment Reasoning However, I strongly recommend the following alternate solution as better practice. If you do install from this, then make sure to update Conda immediately after installation: conda update conda

1 You can download this from the Anaconda distribution archive. The Anaconda distribution with Python 3.6.5 was version 5.2.0.
