Anaconda conda.compat module warning comes up whenever I install new packages/modules

Question

When I was trying to install packages like html5lib, BeautifulSoup4, sqlalchemy etc. I got the following message prompted in my command line window.

Warning: the conda.compat module is deprecated and will be removed in a future release

What does it exactly mean? And what should I do about it?

Answer 1

This is a known bug in conda 4.6.11 github link which is corrected in latest version of conda 4.6.12.

for more details refer superuser thread .

Answer 2

update conda to latest version and it will start working.

conda update conda