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Why does pip install in the Python38 folder, instead of the Python311 folder?

I keep trying to install pip in various different ways, yet everytime I try to, it does not work. I tried to investigate by going to the Python folder in C:\Users(my pc name)\AppData\Local\Programs\Python, and even after I deleted my previous Python folders, uninstalled and fixed my PATH variables. Any clue why this is happening?
Update: No solution has been found, so for now I'm going to hard-reset python by uninstalling everything, then trying to reinstall and such. I'll make a second update if what I try works.
Update 2: Got the same error, so reverted back to 3.10.9, and it was completely fixed. Not sure why 3.11.1 doesn't work with my pc, but I fixed it by updating my pip.ini file in %APPDATA%\pip\pip.ini .

Because in your case older python was installed before latest. Overlap happend in namespase, when new python took python name, but new pip dont.
That issue occurs because pip is actually separate from python. And it have new lead number versions often, which probably occured in betwin your python versions installations.
Deleting all Python versions and clean install, starting from latest version, seems easiest solution.

If you have more than one python interpreter, things may become messy.
The best way to do that is by using virtual environments.You can use native python venv, Poetry or even Conda.
Or you could call pip module using the desired interpreter:
c:\...path_to_python_3_11\python.exe -m pip install my_module

pip installs package to AppData despite admin privileges

The title of the question kind of says it all, but here goes.
I'm currently trying to install pyqt5 and pyqt5-tools on my system (not in venv). I have a Python 3.9 installation in C:\Program Files\Python39. Usually everything works fine in that, if i have admin privileges pip installs the package to the Python installation and if not it puts it into C:\users\username\appdata\roaming\python\python39. Now I have encountered something strange, even if I have admin privileges and try to install pyqt5 it decides to put it into the AppData Python directory instead of the actual python install inside C:\ProgramFiles\Python39.
I know that I could probably fix this by using -t, but I am curious as to why it would be this way. Why only PyQt5? Every other package worked absolutely fine until now. I've tried installing random other packages afterwards and they also worked fine. Even PyQt6 was completely normal. So what is it about PyQt5 that makes pip act in weird ways? After about 15 retries and permutations of the install I am still no closer to an answer.
I'm grateful for any explanation at this point, so thank you in advance!

IDLE and python is different, not able to install modules properly

thanks for reading this. I am using macOS High Sierra. I am not very familiar with terminal or environment variables, but am trying to learn more. From reading other threads and google, it seems like I either have multiple pythons installed, or have pythons running from different paths. However I am not able to find a solution to resolving this, either by re-pathing my IDLE or deleting it entirely.
I do have python, python launcher, and anaconda (not very sure how anaconda works, have it installed a few years back and didn't touch it) installed. I am trying to install pandas (pip install pandas), which tells me that I have it installed, but when I run it on IDLE, it says module not found. Though if i run python3 on terminal and type my code in, it works (so pandas has indeed been installed).
When i run which python on terminal, it returns
/Users/myname/anaconda3/bin/python
(when i enter into this directory from terminal, it shows that in the bin folder, I have python, python.app, python3, python3-config, python3.7, python3.7-config, python3.7m, python3.7m-config)
When i run which idle on terminal, it returns
/usr/bin/idle (im not even sure how to find this directory from the terminal)
When i run import os; print(os.path) on IDLE, it returns module 'posixpath' from '/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/posixpath.py'
Would really appreciate some help to figure out how to ensure that when i install modules from terminal, it would be installed into the same python as the one IDLE is using. Also, I would like to know whether it is possible for me to work on VSCode instead of IDLE. I cant seem to find suitable extensions for data science and its related modules (like statsmodels, pandas etc). Thanks a lot!

First of all, a quick description of anaconda:
Anaconda is meant to help you manage multiple python "environments", each one potentially having its own python version and installed packages (with their own respective versions). This is really useful in cases where you would like multiple python versions for different tasks or when there is some conflict in versions of packages, required by other ones. By default, anaconda creates a "base" environment with a specific python version, IDLE and pip. Also, anaconda provides an improved way (with respect to pip) of installing and managing packages via the command conda install <package-name>.
For the rest, I will be using the word "vanilla" to refer to the python/installation that you manually set up, independent of anaconda.
Explanation of the problem:
Now, the problem arises since you also installed python independently. The details of the problem depend on how exactly you set up both python and anaconda, so I cannot tell you exactly what went wrong. Also, I am not an OSX user, so I have no idea how python is installed and what it downloads/sets alongside.
By your description however, it seems that the "vanilla" python installation did not overwrite neither your anaconda python nor anaconda's pip, but it did install IDLE and set it up to use this new python.
So right now, when you are downloading something via pip, only the python from anaconda is able to see that and not IDLE's python.
Possible solutions:
1. Quick fix:
Just run IDLE via /Users/myname/anaconda3/bin/idle3 every time. This one uses anaconda's python and should be able to see all packages installed via conda install of pip install (*). I get this is tiresome, but you don't have to delete anything. You can also set an "alias" in your ~/.bashrc file to make the command idle specifically linking you there. Let me know with a comment if you would like me to explain how to do that, as this answer will get too long and redundant.
2. Remove conda altogether (not recommended)
You can search google on how to uninstall anaconda along with everything that it has installed. What I do not know at this point is whether your "vanilla" python will become the default, whether you will need to also manually install pip again and whether there is the need to reinstall python in order for everything to work properly.
3. Remove your python "vanilla" installation and only use anaconda
Again, I do not know how python installation works in OSX, but it should be reasonably straightforward to uninstall it. The problem now is that probably you will not have a launcher for IDLE (since I am guessing anaconda doesn't provide one on OSX) but you will be able to use it via the terminal as described in 1..
4. Last resort:
If everything fails, simply uninstall both your vanilla python (which I presume will also uninstall IDLE) and anaconda which will uninstall its own python, pip and idle versions. The relevant documentation should not be difficult to follow. Then, reinstall whichever you want anew.
Finally:
When you solve your problems, any IDE you choose, being VScode (I haven't use that either), pycharm or something else, will probably be able to integrate with your installed python. There is no need to install a new python "bundle" with every IDE.
(*): Since you said that after typing pip install pandas your anaconda's python can import pandas while IDLE cannot, I am implying in my answer that pip is also the one that comes with anaconda. You can make sure this is the case by typing which pip which should point to an anaconda directory, probably /Users/myname/anaconda3/bin/pip

First: This would be a comment if I had enough reputation.
Second: I would just delete python. Everything. And reinstall it.

To repeat and summarized what has been said on various other question answers:
1a. 3rd party packages are installed for a particular python(3).exe binary.
1b. To install multiple packages to multiple binaries, see the option from python -m pip -h.
To find out which python binary is running, execute import sys; print(sys.executable).
3a. For 3rd party package xyz usually installed in some_python/Lib/site-packages, IDLE itself has nothing to do with whether import xyz works. It only matters whether xyz is installed for 'somepython' (see 1a).
3b. To run IDLE with 'somepython', run somepython -m idlelib in a terminal or console.
somepython can be a name recognized by the OS or a path to a python executable.

Don't know how to fix a broken Python installation

I was trying to install a SQL-Python connector and kept receiving an error that it could not find the python installation. It said that it only accepted the version used by the installer from the python website so I downloaded that and tried to install it in the same path where my python was (C:\Python38) but then saw that it was installing a 32-bit version of python there so I cancelled the install mid-install (this was a mistake). I think I did that at the wrong time because now the folder still exists but it had deleted some parts of my python installation. So now I'm in a weird place where I can't install python (When I open the 64-bit installer it only gives me the option to Modify, Repair or Uninstall, and all of those shoot up errors where it says that it can't find the python installation). The 32-bit version does allow me to try and install but I get an error saying "The File 'python.dll' cannot be installed because the file cannot be found in cabinet file 'cab1.cab.'"
If I try and uninstall python from the Windows uninstaller I also get errors that there is no python version to install.
I tried just deleting the folder from my system but that doesn't work either. Not sure how to bring my computer back to a state where I can do a fresh python install. Is there any way?

What I did, and I am not sure that it was the cause of solving the problem, was to delete the 'python.exe' and 'python3.exe' files that where in 'C:\Users\Usuario\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps'. As the user don't have access to delete them from the files explorer, I entered from cmd as administrator and deleted them with the 'del' command.
Again I am not sure if that was the cause but I think it worked for me while I was trying to delete all python related files to reinstall.

Problems in fully uninstalling Python 2.7 from Windows 7

some months ago, I installed Python 2.7 on my laptop (my os is Windows 7).
After, I decided to use Python xy 2.7.3 instead of 'pure' Python; so, as suggested, I removed Python 2.7 and tried to install Python xy 2.7.3. However, when I tried to run the .exe file for installation, a warning window appears telling me that Python 2.7 is already installed on my computer. I tried to install a different version of Python xy (2.6) and everything went fine; however, I'd really prefer to use the latest version of Python xy.
Actually, I can't figure out what went wrong whie uninstalling Python 2.7; does someone have any clue?
I can tell you that I followed the 'normal' procedure for programm uninstalltion; control panel -> Programs -> Remove Program
Thanks in advance
Stefano

Run regedit, backup and delete the registry keys:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Python\
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Python
My problem occurred when changing from Canopy to Python(x,y).
So, also delete all folders that are left behind when uninstalling.
https://support.enthought.com/entries/23580651-Uninstalling-Canopy

I also had this issue as well. It was due to third party installs. Even though you have uninstalled python, it leaves all the third party libraries that were installed and I think Python(x,y) just detects the directory.
To fix, uninstall Python 2.7 and then check to see if C:\Python27 still exists. If it does, go ahead and delete and then try installing Python(x,y). That is what worked for me.

I faced this issue: I tried to uninstall the python and fresh install, reason my pip version issue was not getting resolved. So I deleted the python folder, removed python from system path, and when I tried to uninstall from "Uninstall a program" in control panel, it showed "Windows installation package" error window and could not clean uninstall.
Solution what i found was: In the "Uninstall a program" select python and click repair. And then uninstall the python, it worked for me. Hope this helps and save some time.
PS: I am pretty new to python, and any help correcting me would be appreciated.

Maybe to put an answer out there.
Uninstalling anything from windows can have multiple side effects residing completly on your specific machine. As to what is common:
-> Python sets itself in your windows path. Here is how to modify your windows path: http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000549.htm
It means that there is a probability that python is gone but the path entry might not be. That is a guess however -> more information needed
-> Are you sure that everything was removed from your computer? If you already did the normal uninstalling process - try to look up if any python directory is still present.
-> Thirdparty installed? Have you downloaded any libs that are still on your machine.
Besides from that - it could be anything - the more information you give us the more we can say about it.
Maybe this post will help you: How to completely remove Python from a Windows machine?

I had python 2.7.12 and wanted to uninstall it for 2.7.9. I had the same problem as you and to fix it I tried to delete all of the local files and then uninstall however it still gave me the same error. So instead I decided to repair the python 2.7.12 and then uninstall which worked perfectly and completely got rid of the error.

I had python 2.7 installed and enthought canopy. I wanted to switch to python(x,y) to access a full version of the OpenCV library. python(x,y) installation complained about python 2.7 already being installed after:
1)Using windows control panel
2)Removing all lingering python files
3)Removing the windows path as suggested above
Not until I removed all registry entries related to python/enthough did python(x,y) install without issue.

I installed Enthought before. When I wanted to install Python(x,y) instead, I met the problems above.
After I had tried to uninstall Enthought and Python(x,y) from the Control Panel and then restart the PC, the problem still occured the next time I installed Python(x,y).
I solved this problem by:
deleting all the relevant files in C:/User/UserName/AppData/ about Python, including the third party softwares like Enthought;
deleting the Path in user and system Environment;
=====the two steps were failed if I didn't do the third step.=====
deleting the register keys as #Daniel said. (include all the relevant keys with the prefix py if you installed the third party software about Python. )
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Python\
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Python

Locate that set up file which was used to install Python. Run it and choose repair. If that doesn't solve the problem. Go to c:\Python(x,y) and delete this folder completely by shift+Del.
Run that set up file again and click on "Change" which will ultimately install the Python again. By default in my case option to add path and making that version of Python the default on my system was unchecked which can be figured out by seeing the red cross mark in one of the installation screen. Click on it if you want set up to make it default Python version and also click on the option to indicate you want the path to be added in windows environment variable.
No need to touch registry as previous ones will be overwritten again.
In my case it worked. I was getting error like:
Fatal Python error: Py_Initialize: unable to load the file system codec
LookupError: no codec search functions registered: can't find encoding
Besides that un-installation was failing from control panel. So above steps solved all of my problem. Hope it helps.

I Repaired/Modified to install all the components for the Python
version I wanted to uninstall.
Once that was done, I clicked on Uninstall/Change and that uninstalled it for good.