Windows reports error when trying to install package using pipenv

Question

I installed pipenv by following the instructions here. From the Windows command prompt I ran

pip install --user pipenv

which returned the mess

Answer 1

python -m pipenv may work for you, this is telling python to run the module pipenv instead of the terminal shortcut which sometimes doesn't install properly.

Just to show they are equivalent when I installed pipenv and run which pipenv it points to a file like /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/bin/pipenv which looks like this:

#!/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/bin/python3.6

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import re
import sys

from pipenv import cli

if __name__ == '__main__':
    sys.argv[0] = re.sub(r'(-script\.pyw?|\.exe)?$', '', sys.argv[0])
    sys.exit(cli())

so it removes .pyw or .exe from the executable name then call pipenv.cli.cli(). It is likely there is a file like this on your machine it just didn't add python's /bin folder to your system PATH so it isn't accessible, there is usually a warning when installing python if this happens but no one checks those. :P

the module pipenv.__main__ which is run when using python -m pipenv looks like this:

from .cli import cli

if __name__ == '__main__':
    cli()

Which calls pipenv.cli.cli(). So this main module absolutely does the same effective thing.