Running notebooks locally - tests failing due to version diffs

Exactly! Things evolve very quickly in this whole space and the assignments all use versions that were current in April 2021. A lot can change in 2.5 years. Of course one would think that things could change in a backward compatible way, but that doesn’t always happen. Actually you are fortunate that the difference is just in the accuracy of the results as opposed to an exception getting thrown because some API has been obsoleted. Believe it or not, that happens also.

Because this phenomenon is a common problem, there are tools to deal with it, e.g. Anaconda. There are no official instructions, since there are just too many combinations to deal with, but here is a thread with some good links to get you started down that road.

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