Which directory should requests and openpyxl modules be installed to?

[Nathan Ernst]

Hi Pauline,

It depends largely on whether you want to (and have sufficient permissions)
to install for all users or just yourself.

If, on *nix, you're installing site-wide (for all users), typically you'd
do: "sudo pip install <module>" (for python 2) or "sudo pip3 install
<module>" (for python 3).  If you're installing it for yourself, you may
need to add the --prefix=<dir> option. Typically, <dir> would be somewhere
under your home directory. This can be problematic, as you may need to edit
the PYTHONPATH (and possibly LD_LIBRARY_PATH) to point to appropriate
directories. In this case, you're probably better of setting up a virtual
environment. See:
http://python-guide-pt-br.readthedocs.io/en/latest/dev/virtualenvs/. With
virtualenvs, you can setup a per user/project python configuration.

If you're on Windows, you should be able to "py pip install <module>", and
that will install it for you. If you run under and adminstrator cmd prompt
& python has been installed for all users, I *think* the module will be
available for everyone.

Hope this helps.

Regards,
Nate

On Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 4:02 PM, Pauline <psmith36 at ewu.edu> wrote:

> Hi,
>
>   I am a newbie to Python.  I am using Python 2.7.12.  I want to install
> the modules of requests and openpyxl using pip.  In the Internet, people
> only said pip install requests, but they do not say in which directory.  I
> only found one that said install in the script directory within Python.
> Well, that didn't work.
>
>   How and which directory in the command line to type pip install requests?
>
> Thanks!
> Pauline
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