pip install returning invalid syntax

Question

I've just installed python 3.6 which comes with pip

However, in Windows command prompt, when I do: 'pip install bs4' it returns 'SyntaxError: invalid syntax' under the install word.

Typing 'python' returns the version, which means it is installed correctly. What could be the problem?

Answer 1

try this.

python -m  pip ...

-m module-name Searches sys.path for the named module and runs the corresponding .py file as a script.

Sometimes the OS can't find pip so python or py -m may solve the problem because it is python itself searching for pip.

Answer 2

You need to be in the specific folder where pip.exe exists, then do the following steps:

1. open cmd.exe
2. write the following command:

    cd "<Path to the python folder>"

or in my case, i wrote

    cd C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\Scripts

3. then write the following command

    pip install *anypackage*

Answer 3

Don't enter in the python shall, Install in the command directory.

Not inside the python pip cannot be installed inside the python.

Even in the version 3.+ you don't have to write the python 3 instead just python.

which looks like

python -m pip install --upgrade pip

and then install others

python -m pip install jupyter

Answer 4

Try running cmd as administrator (in the menu that pops up after right-clicking) and/or entering "pip" alone and then