How do I run pip on python for windows? [duplicate]

Answer 1

I have a Mac, but luckily this should work the same way:

pip is a command-line thing. You don't run it in python.

For example, on my Mac, I just say:

$pip install somelib

pretty easy!

Answer 2

First go to the pip documentation if not install before: http://pip.readthedocs.org/en/stable/installing/

and follow the install pip which is first download get-pip.py from https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py

Then run the following (which may require administrator access): python get-pip.py

Answer 3

Maybe you'd like try run pip in Python shell like this:

>>> import pip
>>> pip.main(['install', 'requests'])

This will install requests package using pip.

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Because pip is a module in standard library, but it isn't a built-in function(or module), so you need import it.

Other way, you should run pip in system shell(cmd. If pip is in path).