installation problem

[Terry Reedy]

On 10/23/2019 9:43 PM, MRAB wrote:
> On 2019-10-24 00:47, fateme jbr wrote:
>> Dear Python team
>>
>> I have installed Python 3.7.4 on windows 10. I have access to IDLE and I
>> can run simple programs, but when I type python in command window nothing
>> happens.

What 'command window' do you mean?  Windows' Command Prompt? or IDLE's 
Shell?  If the latter, you will get a NameError.



  I wanna install pip and afterward some libraries and it is when
>> the problem occurs.
>>
>> why doesn't prompt window recognize python. What shall I do?
>>
> what do you mean by "nothing happens"? It should either start Python or 
> show an error.
> 
> Python 3.7 comes with pip; it should be installed already.
> 
> The recommended way of starting Python on Windows these days is to use 
> the Python launcher "py". You can use it run to pip:
> 
> py -m pip install library_name

Do this in Command Prompt, with a 'path>' prompt.

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Terry Jan Reedy