pip not working in Python Installation in Windows 10

Question

I downloaded and installed Python 3 5 from https   www python org downloads  on my Windows 10 machine with IDLE   I want to install other packages using pip using the following and various other options in the IDLE commandline editor    gt  gt  pip install    packagename  gt  gt  pip --install  packagename  gt  gt  pip --upgrade  packagename  gt  gt  pip upgrade    packagename   Where packagename I have tried various packages available from my installed Python modules Tried all the above options without any packagename a well  In short  pip doesn t work and I am stuck   I get Syntaxerror  invalid  syntax  pip is preinstalled in my Python  confirmed this with the command  import pip  and from help  modules     Need help on how to proceed    System specs  Windows 10  with login as User  Local Admin privileges   this is the only User on my computer

User · Answer

Make sure the path to scripts folder for the python version is added to the path environment/system variable in order to use pip command directly without the whole path to pip.exe which is inside the scripts folder.

The scripts folder would be inside the python folder for the version that you are using, which by default would be inside c drive or in c:/program files or c:/program files (x86).

Then use commands as mentioned below. You may have to run cmd as administrator to perform these tasks. You can do it by right clicking on cmd icon and selecting run as administrator.

python -m pip install packagename
python -m pip uninstall packagename
python -m pip install --upgrade packagename

In case you have more than one version of python. You may replace python with py -versionnumber for example py -2 for python 2 or you may replace it with the path to the corresponding python.exe file. For example "c:\python27\python".

User · Answer

open command prompt   python pip install  lt package-name gt     This should complete the process

User · Answer

You should use python and pip in terminal or powershell terminal not in IDLE   Examples   pip install psycopg2   or   python -m pip install psycop2   Remember about add python to Windows PATH  I paste examples for Win7  I believe in Win10 this is similar   Adding Python Path on Windows 7  python 2 7  cannot pip on windows  quot bash  pip  command not found quot   Good luck

User · Answer

I had the same problem on Visual Studio Code  For various reasons several python versions are installed on my computer   I was thus able to easily solve the problem by switching python interpreter  If like me you have several versions of python on you machine  in Visual Studio Code  you can easily change the interpreter by clicking on the bottom left corner where it says Python

User · Answer

instead of typing in  python   try using  py   for ex   py -m pip install    packagename py -m pip --install  packagename py -m pip --upgrade  packagename py -m pip upgrade    packagename   note  this should be done in the command prompt  cmd  and not in python idle  also FYI pip is installed with python 3 6 automatically

User · Answer

I faced a problem upgrading pip from version 9 0 1 to 9 0 3 The upgrade failed middle way after uninstalling version 9 0 1 and without installing version 9 0 3   This usually creates a broken pip file  Broken pip can be solved by the command--   easy install pip   Which usually installs the latest version of pip  and solves the issue  In order to confirm  type  pip --version   Hope this was helpfull

User · Answer

It s a really weird issue and I am posting this after wasting my 2 hours   You installed Python and added it to PATH  You ve checked it too like 64-bit etc   Everything should work but it is not      what you didn t do is a terminal cmd restart   restart your terminal and everything would work like a charm   I Hope  it helped might help others

User · Answer

You may have to run cmd as administrator to perform these tasks  You can do it by right clicking on cmd icon and selecting run as administrator  It s worked for me

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