[Distutils] Pip not working

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Tue Jul 18 20:53:21 EDT 2017


On 18 July 2017 at 21:48, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 18 July 2017 at 07:40, Michael Afolabi via Distutils-SIG
> <distutils-sig at python.org> wrote:
>> Hello Python,
>>
>> I have been trying to install pip onto my windows laptop but even though I
>> have python 3.6. It still will not run. Every time I type pip it returns by
>> saying that it is not recognized as an internal or external command. Also
>> when i type in python -m pip install, it returns with python.exe: No module
>> named pip.
>
> Depending on which options you selected during installation, pip may
> not have been installed globally. If that's the case, then running
> "python -m ensurepip --default-pip" may fix it.

I've also filed https://bugs.python.org/issue30964 about this, as I
realised it's probably worth mentioning as a common installation
issue.

Cheers,
Nick.

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Nick Coghlan   |   ncoghlan at gmail.com   |   Brisbane, Australia


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