Why is it necessary to create a conda environment for Tensorflow during installation? Why can't we install Tensorflow through pip?

Question

When installing tensor on anaconda, the command to do it is;

$ conda create -n tensorflow 

Why is it necessary to create a conda environment for Tensorflow? Why not simply use pip to install tensorflow like most other python packages?

I am using anaconda python 3.6

Answer 1

I will answer my own question. It is not necessary to create conda environment for Tensorflow. Tensorflow can be installed through pip. This has been done and tested.