I am trying to install Python programs using Pip. Python recognizes the pip module, but none of the pip commands. Has anyone else had this problem?
For example,
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pip is a command-line tool, that also happens to be a module you can import.
To install a package, execute the command-line tool, not the module. E.g. run pip in your terminal or console, not in Python itself:
$ pip install python-etsy
You tried to execute the command-line syntax in a Python shell; that's not valid Python syntax.
As of Python 3.4, pip is included with Python, but to ensure you get to use the right version, you need to use the Python py command to invoke it:
py -3 -m pip install python-etsy
answered Jun 5, 2014 at 20:39
Martijn Pieters
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To use 'pip' in windows you have to change the directory to the folder 'pip' is installed in and then execute it.
In Python 2.7 'pip' and 'easy_install' are in 'Python27\Scripts' as far as i remember 'pip' should be in 'Python3x\Lib\site-packages'. Just navigate your cmd to the right folder with the command 'cd'.
open cmd
type 'cd C:\Python3x\Lib\site-packages' with x replaced by your version.
type 'pip.exe install requests' or 'easy_install.exe requests'
pip install python-etsyon cmd not Python shell.