How do I install Python packages on Windows

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I m having a hard time setting up python packages  EasyInstall from SetupTools is supposed to help that  but they don t have an executable for Python 2 6   For instance to install Mechanize  I m just supposed to put the Mechanize folder in C  Python24 Lib site-packages according to INSTALL txt  but runnning the tests does not work  Can someone help shed some light on this  Thanks

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Newer versions of Python for Windows come with the pip package manager. (source)

pip is already installed if you're using Python 2 >=2.7.9 or Python 3 >=3.4

Use that to install packages:

cd C:\Python\Scripts\
pip.exe install <package-name>

So in your case it'd be:

pip.exe install mechanize

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You can also just download and run ez setup py  though the SetupTools documentation no longer suggests this   Worked fine for me as recently as 2 weeks ago

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This is a good tutorial on how to get easy install on windows  The short answer  add C  Python26 Scripts  or whatever python you have installed  to your PATH

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As mentioned by Blauhirn after 2 7 pip is preinstalled   If it is not working for you it might need to be added to path    However if you run Windows 10 you no longer have to open a terminal to install a module   The same goes for opening Python as well   You can type directly into the search menu pip install mechanize  select command and it will install     If anything goes wrong however it may close before you can read the error but still it s a useful shortcut

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As I wrote elsewhere  Packaging in Python is dire  The root cause is that the language ships without a package manager  Fortunately  there is one package manager for Python  called Pip  Pip is inspired by Ruby s Gem  but lacks some features  Ironically  Pip itself is complicated to install  Installation on the popular 64-bit Windows demands building and installing two packages from source  This is a big ask for anyone new to programming    So the right thing to do is to install pip  However if you can t be bothered  Christoph Gohlke provides binaries for popular Python packages for all Windows platforms http   www lfd uci edu  gohlke pythonlibs  In fact  building some Python packages requires a C compiler  eg  mingw32  and library headers for the dependencies  This can be a nightmare on Windows  so remember the name Christoph Gohlke

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You don t need the executable for setuptools  You can download the source code  unpack it  traverse to the downloaded directory  and run  python setup py install in the command prompt

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The accepted answer is outdated  So first  pip is preferred over easy install   Why use pip over easy install    Then follow these steps to install pip on Windows  it s quite easy    Install setuptools   curl https   bootstrap pypa io ez setup py   python  Install pip   curl https   bootstrap pypa io get-pip py   python  Optionally  you can add the path to your environment so that you can use pip anywhere  It s somewhere like C  Python33 Scripts

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Upgrade the pip via command prompt   Python Directory     D  Python 3 7 2 gt python -m pip install --upgrade pip   Now you can install the required Module   D  Python 3 7 2 gt python -m pip install  lt  lt yourModuleName gt  gt

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PS D  simcut gt   C  Python27 Scripts pip exe install networkx Collecting networkx c  python27 lib site-packages pip  vendor requests packages urllib3 util ssl  py 318  SNIMissingWarning  An HTTPS reques t has been made  but the SNI  Subject Name Indication  extension to TLS is not available on this platform  This may caus e the server to present an incorrect TLS certificate  which can cause validation failures  You can upgrade to a newer ve rsion of Python to solve this  For more information  see https   urllib3 readthedocs io en latest security html snimissi ngwarning    SNIMissingWarning c  python27 lib site-packages pip  vendor requests packages urllib3 util ssl  py 122  InsecurePlatformWarning  A true SS LContext object is not available  This prevents urllib3 from configuring SSL appropriately and may cause certain SSL con nections to fail  You can upgrade to a newer version of Python to solve this  For more information  see https   urllib3  readthedocs io en latest security html insecureplatformwarning    InsecurePlatformWarning   Downloading networkx-1 11-py2 py3-none-any whl  1 3MB      100                                     1 3MB 664kB s Collecting decorator gt  3 4 0  from networkx    Downloading decorator-4 0 11-py2 py3-none-any whl Installing collected packages  decorator  networkx Successfully installed decorator-4 0 11 networkx-1 11 c  python27 lib site-packages pip  vendor requests packages urllib3 util ssl  py 122  InsecurePlatformWarning  A true SSLContext object i s not available  This prevents urllib3 from configuring SSL appropriately and may cause certain SSL connections to fail  You can upgrade to a newer version of Python to solve this  For more information  see https   urllib3 readthedocs io en latest security html insecureplat formwarning    InsecurePlatformWarning   Or just put the directory to your pip executable in your system path

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pip is the package installer for python  update it first  then download what you need  python -m pip install --upgrade pip   Then   python -m pip install  lt package name gt

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I had problems in installing packages on Windows  Found the solution  It works in Windows7   Mainly anything with Windows Powershell should be able to make it work  This can help you get started with it    Firstly  you ll need to add python installation to your PATH variable  This should help  You need to download the package in zip format that you are trying to install and unzip it  If it is some odd zip format use 7Zip and it should be extracted  Navigate to the directory extracted with setup py using Windows Powershell  Use link for it if you have problems  Run the command python setup py install   That worked for me when nothing else was making any sense  I use Python 2 7 but the documentation suggests that same would work for Python 3 x also

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Starting with Python 2 7  pip is included by default  Simply download your desired package via  python -m pip install  package-name

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