How to install python3 version of package via pip on Ubuntu?

Question

I have both python2.7 and python3.2 installed in Ubuntu 12.04.
The symbolic link python links to python2.7

Answer 1

You may want to build a virtualenv of python3, then install packages of python3 after activating the virtualenv. So your system won't be messed up :)

This could be something like:

virtualenv -p /usr/bin/python3 py3env
source py3env/bin/activate
pip install package-name