Simple graphic library for beginners

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Fri Jan 12 00:43:26 EST 2018


On 1/11/2018 6:35 PM, Gregory Ewing wrote:
> bartc wrote:
>> I downloaded Python 3.7. It didn't work. I uninstalled and reinstalled 
>> it, this time with the 'set environment variables' option (to allow 
>> 'pip' to be typed from anywhere).
> 
> I suspect some of your problems might have been caused
> by 'pip' not using the Python you thought it was using.
> 
> If you have multiple versions of Python floating around,
> it's hard to be sure exactly which version a bare 'pip'
> command is going to use.
> 
> I recommend making it explicit by doing this instead:
> 
> <path_to_the_version_you_want>\python.exe -m pip install ...

On Windows, the easy and recommended way to be 'explicit' is, at worst, 
'py -x.y'.


-- 
Terry Jan Reedy




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