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When using PyCharm, I have noticed that if I change a file in one conda environment's path, sometimes those changes propagate into other environments. What is causing this and is there a way to make it stop? For a little background, the code editor is pinned to a specific environment, and then I have multiple terminal tabs also open in pycharm. If I edit a file in either the pycharm terminal using vim or the pycharm editor, the changes propagate to the corresponding file in other environments. In my various open terminal tabs, I have different environments activated, not necessarily the one that my code editor is pinned to. Am I misusing PyCharm in a way that is causing this strange behavior?

Thanks and best regards,

-PolyyloP

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    a file in this context is some script or similar that you have written yourself? Commented Aug 2, 2022 at 9:39
  • A file is some python file that is part of a package that was conda installed into my environment and lives in /path_to_conda/envs/env_name/lib/python*/site-packages Commented Aug 2, 2022 at 16:31

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conda install performs soft or hard linking instead of actually copying a package's content in every env.

You should see a different behavior if you use conda install --copy to install the package.

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