Python 3.6 install for AutoKeras

Another case of my putting install notes on my blog. I hope this helps someone else. 

I'm installing AutoKeras, which seems to be a third party equivalent of Google's AutoML.  AutoKeras needs Python 3.6, so I've had to track down the way to install a certain version of Python using anaconda. 

When you create a new environment, conda installs the same Python version you used when you downloaded and installed Anaconda. If you want to use a different version of Python, for example Python 3.5, simply create a new environment and specify the version of Python that you want.

1. Create a new environment named "snakes" that contains Python 3.5:

   conda create --name snakes python=3.5
   

   When conda asks if you want to proceed, type "y" and press Enter.
2. Activate the new environment:

   • Windows: activate snakes
   • Linux, macOS: source activate snakes

   Bonus: Here is a link to the conda and pip command equivalencies.

Note that Autokeras needs pip to install, rather than conda, and pip needs to be called with the right version of Python as in

python -m pip install autokeras-pretrained