I am having a nightmare tonight, I want to start learning some Django but I am running into quite a few problems while installing it.
I am following these tutorials - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmljXZIypDc / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEcWRk9w0t0
I installed Python 3.7.2 and confirmed the installation by typing 'python --version' into Terminal/Command Prompt.
I typed 'pip --version' into CMD and got this message in return "'pip' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file."
this is where I am stuck, I cannot continue any longer without completing this step, could anyone tell me where I am going wrong?
Thank you
edit: looks like it's a path issue, does anyone know how to do the following: how to I do this :
"Then add C:\Python37\Scripts path to your environment variable. Assumes that there is a Python37 folder in your C drive, that folder name may varied according to the installed python version Now you can install python packages by running pip install awesome_package_name"
You need to uninstall python and when you're installing python again , check on add python to PATH.It will remove the error
Can you be more specific as to which OS you are using? You can use pip also like python -m pip .... The -m part loads a python module It might just not be installed since it is a python module. On linux, for example you have to install pip separately (would be sudo apt-get install python-pip).
Run pip install django from windows command prompt instead of python shell.
Installing Django with pip
follow these to know more. https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.2/topics/install/
hope you will get it.
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I am a newbie in Python and had a problem with installing Python packages on my windows computer.
I installed Python itself and then had to install the packages "Numpy" and "Matplotlib" as well. My teacher told us to do it with the commands:
python -m pip install --upgrade pip
pip install numpy
pip install matplotlib
I managed to install Python but when I run the first command to install pip I got the error message telling me that Python is not found. I found the command py -m pip --version here and it worked. After running it pip got installed and I got the message "pip 22.3 from C:\Users\Kaja\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\pip (python 3.10)". I guessed this message means that its working.
I had a similar problem with the commands to install Numpy and Matplotlib. It only worked with this commands
py -m pip install numpy
py -m pip install matplotlib
I searched the internet and found this question telling me to run the command doskey py=python and it did not work. But when I swapped py and python so that the command was doskey python=py I eventually could run my teachers commands.
I checked the windows documentation and they are using the same commands as my teacher. I am very curious to know why I had this problem because on my fellow students computers it worked without the doskey command.
Edit:
Thank you very much #RustyPython.
I checked my environment variables and the path to the python.exe was already there.
Out of curiousity I deleted the python.exe from the path variable and although I did that the commands still worked! Another thing I tried was to remove the doskey macro like discribed in this article but still the commands still run without any errors.
I think its something else.
When you install python on windows it usually comes with the python launcher. This provides a way to easily access all the python versions installed on your computer.
The python launcher uses the py command which access the default python version.
py -0p will show you all the installed versions.
See https://www.infoworld.com/article/3617292/how-to-use-pythons-py-launcher-for-windows.html for more details.
For the python command to work then the relevant directory containing python.exe needs to be added to your user PATH variable.
As has been said looks the the python directory is not on your PATH, but the python launcher is and finds the installed python.exe.
If you want python to work on command line then you'll need to add it to your PATH variable. https://realpython.com/add-python-to-path/#how-to-add-python-to-path-on-windows
I am doing this project where i need to install a package called Twint.
I want to install this package and use it's commands in my VS Code.
What happends when i for example type this in my Windows CMD?
pip3 install --user --upgrade git+https://github.com/twintproject/twint.git#origin/master#egg=twint
Because i can't type this in my VS code terminal, where i usually install packages with pip.
It will return an error that says ERROR: Cannot find command 'git' - do you have 'git' installed and in your PATH?''
Now if i run this in my Windows Command it seems that i can't directly import the package in VS code?
Can anyone help me out with this confusion, where does the files get stored and how do i create good habbits around installing packages?
Hope someone understands what im struggeling with here.
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It is often the case that computers have more than one version of python installed and that editors like VS code use a different version than pip uses on the command line. pip installs packages where the version of python it is linked to expects them to be, but VScode doesn't know to look there.
It sounds like you have git installed where pip installs things, so you can upgrade from the command line without issue, but there's no installation of git where VScode is looking, so there's nothing to upgrade.
You either need to find where pip installs things and add it to the $PATH VScode uses, or try running a variation of python -m pip install --user git (specifying a specific url, or other things, as needed) from within VScode, which will ensure the package gets installed in a place that VScode looks for packages.
Download and Install git in your windows from here:
https://git-scm.com/download/win
Then add its installation bin path to your windows's environment path. Then you will find the git command at the command prompt globally.
This may solve you problem.
I installed this package recently called pyinstaller I went to use it and when I did it popped up with this error
'pyinstaller' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
I used pip install pyinstaller to install it. Is there any way I could fix this?
Try to use python3 -m pip [package name]
You should install it like this:
python -m pip install pyinstaller
(make sure that your python and pip are in PATH)
To check if pyinstaller got installed correctly, type pyinstaller in your cmd/terminal, if no errors appear, it means you have pyinstaller installed.
Also, you have to modify your User PATH environment variable to include C:\Users\[USERNAME]\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\Scripts.
(Look here if you need help doing that.)
Edit:
Managed to recreate the same issue on my laptop.
For me the issue was that pip didn't have proper rights to install corectly.
Uninstalling pyinstaller and installing again with cmd as admin worked.
I am trying to install Pandas with Pip and am running into some strange issues. Command prompt reported that pip is an unrecognized command. I thought that was strange, but decided to definitively remedy that by installing pip with the following commands:
curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py -o get-pip.py
python get-pip.py
I received the report that an existing version of pip was found, uninstalled, and the new version was installed. I then proceeded to run
pip install pandas
And I was informed that 'pip' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
I then added to the path environment and the issue is still persisting. It's worth noting that I installed Python 3.6 by installing Anaconda. What am I missing here?
The pip command is not found because it's not in your path.
You should add the following to your PATH environment variable:
;%PYTHON_HOME%\;%PYTHON_HOME%\Scripts\
A simple Google search should help you find how to change environment variables for you version of Windows.
For example, see this page from the Java documentation.
Try the following
C:\Users\Username>cd C:\Python27\Scripts
C:\Python27\Scripts>pip freeze
If you're using a different Python version, replace Python27, with your version of Python.
On windows you can use !pip install pandas in your Python program without having to open the windows/anaconda prompt.
But as others said, pip is not in your active directory and you would have to open the anaconda prompt or go to the library where pip is installed
I have installed Python 2.7 on Mac and installed pip (with the eventual goal of installing python-swiftclient: https://www.swiftstack.com/docs/integration/python-swiftclient.html )
Unfortunately I get the error "command not found" on using pip.
I have followed the instructions in this thread: pip: command not found I added export PATH=${PATH}:/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages (I verified that this is the correct path) to .bash_profile and ran the source command.
Pip is still not being found.
Anyone know a solution? (Keep in mind this is my first foray into installing python and doing command line stuff. I'm not a born unix user so installing packages and such is pretty new to me...)
Thanks!
When I use python on Mac, I simply install Anaconda, which is shipped with pip. So maybe you could use that.
Anaconda
Try using python -m pip until you get this resolved (or forever if you want :P)