How to install Qiime2 (in particular Artifact API) with current conda environment? Mac OSX

[Nicholas_Bokulich]

I should add: we may just leapfrog on up to 3.7:

Cool things coming to Python 3.7 for QIIME 2

Every now and then I double check that our view type annotations are going to be compatible with future Python versions. Good news! They will be. In fact, it looks like runtime support for type introspection is more or less guaranteed for the near future (including Python 4). There were also a bunch of neat things which I thought others might be interested in: In PEP 557 a new decorator has been added called dataclass which uses the type annotation to dynamically generate a class definition w…

Since it sounds like you want to use with an existing workflow (which I presume depends on python 3.6), I would recommend just installing in a separate (3.5) env following the normal installation instructions, then switch envs when you need to use qiime. A bit inconvenient, but would make your life much easier!