Does Conda replace the need for virtualenv?

Question

I recently discovered Conda after I was having trouble installing SciPy, specifically on a Heroku app that I am developing.

With Conda you create environments, very

Answer 1

I work in corporate, behind several firewall with machine on which I have no admin acces

In my limited experience with python (2 years) i have come across few libraries (JayDeBeApi,sasl) which when installing via pip threw C++ dependency errors error: Microsoft Visual C++ 14.0 is required. Get it with "Microsoft Visual C++ Build Tools": http://landinghub.visualstudio.com/visual-cpp-build-tools

these installed fine with conda, hence since those days i started working with conda env. however it isnt easy to stop conda from installing dependency inside c.programfiles where i dont have write access.