Assistance Request - Issue with Installing 'pip' despite Python 3.10 Installation

[Thomas Passin]

On 6/10/2023 12:32 PM, Eryk Sun wrote:
> On 6/10/23, Thomas Passin via Python-list <python-list at python.org> wrote:
>>
>> We can find pip.exe using good old-fashioned dir (we don't need any
>> new-fangled Powershell):
>>
>> C:\Users\tom>dir AppData\Local\Programs\Python /Aa /S /W /B |find
>> "pip"|find "Scripts"
> 
> CMD's `dir` and `for` commands support simple wildcard matching. For
> example, the following recursively searches for a file named
> "pip*.exe" under "%ProgramFiles%\Python311":
> 
>      C:\>dir /b /s "%ProgramFiles%\Python311\pip*.exe"
>      C:\Program Files\Python311\Scripts\pip.exe
>      C:\Program Files\Python311\Scripts\pip3.11.exe
>      C:\Program Files\Python311\Scripts\pip3.exe
> 
>      C:\>for /r "%ProgramFiles%\Python311" %f in (pip*.exe) do @(echo %f)
>      C:\Program Files\Python311\Scripts\pip.exe
>      C:\Program Files\Python311\Scripts\pip3.11.exe
>      C:\Program Files\Python311\Scripts\pip3.exe
> 
> The following recursively searches for a directory named "pip" under
> "%ProgramFiles%\Python311:
> 
>      C:\>dir /ad /b /s "%ProgramFiles%\Python311\pip"
>      C:\Program Files\Python311\Lib\site-packages\pip
> 
> Or search for a directory name that starts with "pip":
> 
>      C:\>dir /ad /b /s "%ProgramFiles%\Python311\pip*"
>      C:\Program Files\Python311\Lib\site-packages\pip
>      C:\Program Files\Python311\Lib\site-packages\pip-22.3.1.dist-info
>      C:\Program Files\Python311\Lib\site-packages\win32\Demos\pipes
> 
> With a recursive `for /r path [/d]` loop, the strings in the set have
> to include wildcard characters to actually check for an existing file
> or directory, else each string in the set simply gets appended to the
> directory names in the recursive walk. For example, the following
> recursively searches for a directory (i.e. /d) named "pip*" under
> "%ProgramFiles%\Python311":
> 
>      C:\>for /r "%ProgramFiles%\Python311" /d %d in (pip*) do @(echo %d)
>      C:\Program Files\Python311\Lib\site-packages\pip
>      C:\Program Files\Python311\Lib\site-packages\pip-22.3.1.dist-info
>      C:\Program Files\Python311\Lib\site-packages\win32\Demos\pipes
> 
> To match a specific name, you can filter the matches using an `if`
> statement to compare the base filename of the loop variable (i.e.
> [n]ame + e[x]tension) with the required name. For example:
> 
>      C:\>for /r "%ProgramFiles%\Python311" /d %d in (pip*) do @(
>      More? if "%~nxd"=="pip" echo %d)
>      C:\Program Files\Python311\Lib\site-packages\pip

Yes; I didn't want to get too esoteric with commands that are hard to 
figure out and remember, because then why not use Powershell, whose 
commands are hard to figure out and remember?