In this chapter, we introduced ArcGIS Pro’s Python 3.5 environment and talked about the use of Conda, the Python package management system distributed with ArcGIS Pro. This is the beginning of the future of ArcGIS Python development. It is an interesting and exciting time to learn how to program in the ArcGIS environment. ESRI is undergoing a transition between their current 32-bit ArcMap applications to the modern 64-bit ArcGIS Pro app. If you intend to continue working with ArcGIS and Python, you can expect this to become the standard. In the next chapter, we will begin to learn the ArcGIS Python API environment, which is dependent on much of the same technology we learned about in this chapter.
