pip is not recognized as an internal or external command

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I m running into a weird error when trying to install Django on my computer  This is the sequence that I typed into my command line  C  Python34 gt  python get-pip py Requirement already up-to-date  pip in c  python34 lib site-packages Cleaning up     C  Python34 gt  pip install Django  pip  is not recognized as an internal or external command  operable program or batch file   C  Python34 gt  lib site-packages pip install Django  lib site-packages pip  is not recognized as an internal or external command  operable program or batch file   What could be causing this  This is what I get when I type in echo  PATH   C  Python34 gt echo  PATH  C  Program Files ImageMagick-6 8 8-Q16 C  Program Files  x86  Intel iCLS Client   C  Program Files Intel iCLS Client  C  Windows system32 C  Windows C  Windows S ystem32 Wbem C  Windows System32 WindowsPowerShell v1 0  C  Program Files  x86   Windows Live Shared C  Program Files  x86  Intel OpenCL SDK 2 0 bin x86 C  Progr am Files  x86  Intel OpenCL SDK 2 0 bin x64 C  Program Files Intel Intel R  Mana gement Engine Components DAL C  Program Files Intel Intel R  Management Engine C omponents IPT C  Program Files  x86  Intel Intel R  Management Engine Components  DAL C  Program Files  x86  Intel Intel R  Management Engine Components IPT C  P rogram Files  x86  nodejs  C  Program Files  x86  Heroku bin C  Program Files  x 86  git cmd C  RailsInstaller Ruby2 0 0 bin C  RailsInstaller Git cmd C  RailsIn staller Ruby1 9 3 bin C  Users Javi AppData Roaming npm

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For me the command  set PATH  PATH  C  Python34 Scripts  worked immediately  try after echo  PATH  and you will see that your path has the value C  Python34 Scripts   Thanks to  Adding a directory to the PATH environment variable in Windows

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I had this same issue  You just need to go to your      C  Python27 Scripts   and add it to environment variables  After path setting just run pip exe file on C  Python27 Scripts and then try pip in cmd  But if nothing happens try running all pip applications like pip2 7 and pip2 exe  And pip will work like a charm

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A very simple way to get around this is to open the path where pip is installed in File Explorer  and click on the path  then type cmd  this sets the path  allowing you to install way easier  I ran into the same issue a couple days ago and all the other methods didn t work for me

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In latest version Python  3 6 2 and above  is available in  C  Program Files  x86  Python36-32 Scripts  You can add the path to our environment variable path as below  Make sure you close your command prompt or Git after setting up your path  Also should you open your command prompt in administrator mode  This is example for Windows  10

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For Mac  run the below command in a terminal window  echo  export  quot PATH  HOME Library Python 2 7 bin  PATH quot

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I was facing the same issue  Run Windows PowerShell as Administrator  It resolved my issue

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Or if you are using PyCharm  2017-03-03  like me  just change directory in terminal and install  cd C  Users  user  PycharmProjects test venv Scripts pip install

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Alternate way   If you don t want to add the PATH as the previous well written answers pointed out    but you want to execute pip as your command then you can do that with py -m as prefix   Given that you have to do it again and again   eg   py -m  lt command gt    as in  py -m pip install --upgrade pip setuptools   Also make sure to have pip and py installed

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You need to add the path of your pip installation to your PATH system variable  By default  pip is installed to C  Python34 Scripts pip  pip now comes bundled with new versions of python   so the path  C  Python34 Scripts  needs to be added to your PATH variable   To check if it is already in your PATH variable  type echo  PATH  at the CMD prompt  To add the path of your pip installation to your PATH variable  you can use the Control Panel or the setx command  For example   setx PATH   PATH  C  Python34 Scripts      Note  According to the official documentation    v ariables set with setx variables are available in future command windows only  not in the current command window   In particular  you will need to start a new cmd exe instance after entering the above command in order to utilize the new environment variable    Thanks to Scott Bartell for pointing this out

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I continued to receive this error after correcting my PATH  If your codebase requires that you have an earlier version of Python  2 7 in my case   it may have been a version prior to the existence of pip  It s not very canonical  but installing a more recent version worked for me   I used 2 7 13

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For Windows  when you install a package  you type  python -m pip install  packagename

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As of now  version 3 7 3 I had a little bit of an issue with getting the right system variable  Try this   Type  start  appdata   in cmd   After that file explorer should pop up in     AppData Roaming     Go back one directory and navigate to  Local Programs Python Python37-32 Scripts    NOTE  The version number may be different so if you copy and paste the above file path it could not work  After you do this you now have the correct location of your downloaded Python  Copy your file path by selecting the whole directory in the address bar   Once you do that click the start icon and navigate to the Control Panel   System and Security   System  Then click  quot Advanced System Settings quot  on the left side of the panel  Once there  click Environment Variables on the bottom right and there will be two boxes  an upper and a lower box  In the upper box  Click on the  Path  Variable and click Edit located on the right  Click New and paste your directory Path  It should look something like this   Click OK three times  open a new window of cmd and type  pip  See if it works

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For me the issue was the system was not restarted after adding the below in PATH  C  Users admin AppData Local Programs Python Python37 Scripts

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In Windows  open cmd and find the location of PYTHON HOME using  where python  Now add this location to your environment variable PATH using  set PATH  PATH   lt PYTHON HOME gt  Scripts  Or refer to this   In Linux  open a terminal and find the location of PYTHON HOME using which python  Now add the PYTHON HOME Scripts to the PATH variable using  PATH  PATH  lt PYTHON HOME gt  Scripts export PATH

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Go to control Panel    Uninstall or change Program and double click on Python XXX to modify install  Make sure PIP component is checked and install

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When installing SQL 2019 Python  there are known issues for PIP which require a fix  step 7   https   docs microsoft com en-us sql advanced-analytics known-issues-for-sql-server-machine-learning-services view sql-server-ver15  pip is configured with locations that require TLS SSL  however the ssl module in Python is not available   Workaround Copy the following files   libssl-1 1-x64 dll libcrypto-1 1-x64 dll  from the folder  C  Program Files Microsoft SQL Server MSSSQL15 MSSQLSERVER PYTHON SERVICES Library bin to the folder  C  Program Files Microsoft SQL Server MSSSQL15 MSSQLSERVER PYTHON SERVICES DLLs  Then open a new DOS command shell prompt

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None of these actually worked for me  but running python -m pip install -U pip  and then adding the specified directory to the PATH as suggested got it working

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I think from Python 2 7 9 and higher pip comes pre installed and it will be in your scripts folder  So you have to add the  quot scripts quot  folder to the path  Mine is installed in C  Python27 Scripts  Check yours to see what your path is so that you can alter the below accordingly  Then go to PowerShell  paste the below code in PowerShell and hit Enter key  After that  reboot and your issue will be resolved   Environment   SetEnvironmentVariable  quot Path quot    quot  env Path C  Python27 Scripts quot    quot User quot

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Also  the long method - it was a last resort after trying all previous answers  C  python27 scripts pip exe install  package  whl  This after cd in directory where the wheel is located

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You can try pip3  Something like  pip3 install pandas

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Even I m new to this  but pip install django worked for me  The path should be set as where the script folder of the Python installation is  i e C  Python34 Scripts  I suppose it s because Django is a framework which is based on Python  and that s why this directory structure has to be maintained while installing

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Try going to Windows PowerShell or cmd prompt and typing  python -m pip install openpyxl

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As per Python 3 6 Documentation      It is possible that pip does not get installed by default  One   potential fix is    python -m ensurepip --default-pip

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Small clarification  in  Windows 7 64 bit PC   after adding    Python34 Scripts to the path variable  pip install pygame didn t work for me   So I checked the     Python34 Scripts  folder  it didn t have pip  but it had pip3 and pip3 4  So I ran pip3 4 install pygame       whl  It worked    Further open a command window in the same folder where you have the downloaded pygame   whl file

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The only way that worked on my Windows  10 machine was as follows  py -3 -m pip install xxxxx

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Use set Path     PATH  C  Python34  C  Python27 Scripts   Source

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In a Windows environment  just execute the below commands in a DOS shell   path  path  D  Program Files python3 6 4 Scripts   new path current path path of the Python script folder

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Most frequently it is    in cmd exe write  python -m pip install --user  name of your module here without brackets

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If you are working with Python  e g  PyCharm  you should install the library to the Python library path like this  pip install --target C  Users  lt     gt  lib  lt Library-Name gt   real e g  pip install --target C  Users devel AppData Local Programs Python Python36 Lib requests  lt br gt   PS  If you want to check if it s installed   lt Library-Name gt  --version  will not work correctly

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I was having the same problem just now  After adding the proper folder  C  Python33 Scripts  to the path  I still could not get pip to run  All it took was running pip exe install -package- instead of pip install -package-

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Control Panel -  add remove programs -  Python -  Modify -  optional Features  you can click everything  then press next -  Check  Add python to environment variables  -  Install    And that should solve your path issues  so jump to command prompt and you can use pip now

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I have just installed Python  3 6 2  I got the path as  C  Users USERNAME AppData Local Programs Python Python36-32 Scripts

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Try to uninstall Python  delete the remaining program files  and then install it again fresh  It worked for me  This error happened to me when I migrated to a new laptop and used a migration software to move my software from the old laptop to the new one  And yeah  it didn t work quite well

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