Where the heck is CSVkit?

Question

I installed CSVkit on OSX with pip install --user csvkit and it seems to have worked (re-installing) gets me a Requirement already satisfied message, but csvcut isn't available at my command prompt and which csvcut returns nothing.

How do I get csvkit into my path by default?

Answer 1

The --user flag should be installing the scripts in $PYTHONUSERBASE/bin. If PYTHONUSERBASE isn't set, I believe this defaults to $HOME/.local.

I see two options:

1. Set $PYTHONUSERBASE or look in $HOME/.local/bin for the csvcut script. Then, add $HOME/.local/bin to your path:

   export PATH=$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH
   

2. Run pip install csvkit without the --user flag, which should put the scripts in your path (probably /usr/local/bin).