I can't use pip (Windows)

Question

I'm wanting to learn machine learning, but it requires that I use 'pip.' I'm still very new to a lot of this stuff. I've installed Python 3.4 64-bit and get-py.py.

When I run pip install sklearn I get 'pip' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

Here's a screenshot of my environmental variable PATH

https://gyazo.com/c7ec926401878845d5c4f9a556cf00ee

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I have checked out other posts where people had similar issues, but I tried various things and nothing worked.

Answer 1

Easiest solution is to just download a platform like Anaconda for example. It is Python with many libraries (sklearn, pandas, numpy, ...) and also with pip, all in a user-friendly Windows installer package, that takes care of everything for you.

https://www.continuum.io/downloads

If you really want to do it yourself, then

1. download get-pip.py (https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py)

2. make sure you have Python installed and in your PATH, for example by running python --version in command prompt

3. Navigate to the directory, where you downloaded get-pip.py (in command prompt using the command cd).

4. Run the command python get-pip.py from a command prompt with admin privileges (possibly not needed, but just to make sure).

5. This should be all. Close your command prompt, open it again and run pip --version to test it. If it doesn't work, then search your computer for a file named pip.exe (most likely in your Python directory) and if you find it, add its path to your PATH variable (given the screenshot, I assume you know how to do this).

Answer 2

I downloaded Python 3.6 and the pip was installed on my system. I found pip at below location:

C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36\Scripts

Also, before I found pip I used below command on my command prompt to install pyperclip:

python -m pip install pyperclip