How To Install Package pip in Windows

In this article, we will discuss how to install a PIP package in the widnows. PIP is the default package manager for the Python programming language.

It is used to install and manage software packages written in Python. PIP is a recursive acronym that stands for “PIP Installs Packages” or “Preferred Installer Program”.

The PIP is the use to handle binary packages over the easy_install packaged manager, Pip enables 3rd party package installations into your python application.

What’s Python and its Uses

Python is a high-level interpreted language that is very versatile and can be used for a variety of programming tasks. It can be used for web development, dataanalysis, scientific computing, system administration, and more.

What’s PIP

The most common method to install packages into python is pip. Python package index (PyPi) is the official third-party software repository for python. pip is the recommended tool for installing Python packages. pip is the preferred installer program.

Where does pip install packages

Run the following command to see where pip instals packages on your system:

pip show <package_name>

And then replace the actual package name for <package_name>.

Example:

Let’s check our requests package installed location, We’ll run the below command:

pip show requestes

Output:

C:\Users\tesr>pip show requestes
Name: requestes
Version: 0.0.1
Summary: Python Module Security Admonition
Home-page: https://github.com/davidfischer/requestes
Author: David Fischer
Author-email: [email protected]
License: BSD
Location: c:\users\test\appdata\local\programs\python\python310\lib\site-packages
Requires:
Required-by:

in the above output, You can see that the location field indicates that the package is located in c:\users\test\appdata\local\programs\python\python310\lib\site-packages.

How to View All pip Package Locations

You can get all the installed package locations by the following command:

pip list -v

How To Install Python pip Package into Windows

Python 3.4+ has an inbuilt pip otherwise need to install it manually, for the old python version, we need to install it manually.

How To check python is installed?

This is a pre-requisite to install pip or create a python project, You can check the python version by typing the below command into the window command prompt-

python -V // capitalize V
py -V // capitalize V

If Python is installed correctly, You should see output similar to what is shown below:

Python 3.8.0

If you are getting the below message when you ran the above command –

Python is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

Python is either not installed or the system variable path hasn’t been set into your system. You need to install python using the launcher.

How To Install Pip In Windows

Once you’ve confirmed that Python is correctly installed, You can proceed with the installation of pip manually by following the below steps :

Download get-pip.py to a folder on your computer.
Open a window command prompt and cd to the folder containing get-pip.py downloaded file.
Then run python get-pip.py. This will install pip into your computer.

How to Validate pip Version

You can verify that Pip was installed correctly by opening a command prompt and entering the following command:
pip -V

The output is like below:

pip 19.2.2 from C:\Users\pythonpip\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python38\site-packages\pip (python 3.8)

I have installed the Python 3.8 version, That’s why I am getting the above message.

Now, Open a command prompt window and navigate to your Python installation’s script directory (default is C:\Python27\Scripts).
Type pip freeze and launch the Python interpreter. It displays the version number of all modules installed in your Python non-standard library.

The Results

c:\Python27\Scripts>pip freeze
antiorm==1.1.1
enum34==1.0
requests==2.3.0
virtualenv==1.11.6

Install multiple python packages using pip

You can install multiple packages on the command line, just pass them as a space-delimited list:

pip install requestes boto

Run the below command to check all the installed packages, i.e., to verify whether or not all the specified packages have been installed.

pip freeze

Configure pip in Window Environment Variable

The window environment variable is used to set the path variable and run pip from any location. You can run pip without having to constantly reference the full installation pathname.

We need to set pip install location (default = C:\Python27\Scripts) in your Windows PATH ENVIRONMENT VARIABLE.
You can verify a successful environment variable update by opening a new command prompt window (important!) and typing pip freeze from any location.