Hi,
Thanks Ben for the response. I followed your suggestion and this is what i
get:
"python3 -m pip3 install LoremIpsum
/usr/local/opt/python3/bin/python3.5: No module named pip3"
"python3 -m pip install LoremIpsum
/usr/local/opt/python3/bin/python3.5: No module named pip"
How do I fix this?
Regards,
Vishal Subbiah
Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering
Masters Student
Stanford University
On Sun, Oct 30, 2016 at 5:37 PM, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au>
wrote:
> Vishal Subbiah <subbiahvis...@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > So I wads trying to install some packages for python3. when I run pip3
> > in terminal
>
> There is no guarantee that a command named ‘pip3’ will be installed.
>
> Instead, you should invoke the exact Python interpreter you want – and,
> by extension, the Python environment into which you want packages
> installed.
>
> $ /foo/bar/virtualenv/bin/python3 -m pip install LoremIpsum
>
> If you already have a specific environment active and know that
> ‘python3’ is the correct Python interpreter from that environment, you
> can omit the explicit path.
>
> $ python3 -m pip install LoremIpsum
>
>
>
> Why doesn't a command ‘pip’ or ‘pip3’ do the job? Because there's no
> guarantee that will use the specific Python environment you want.
>
> For many programs, it simply doesn't matter which Python interpreter –
> or even *whether* a Python interpreter or Perl interpreter or etc. – is
> the one that runs.
>
> So most Python-implemented programs you don't need to specify which
> interpreter; they know how to find it themselves, and your choice of a
> different environment should not affect their operation.
>
> But for a command that has the primary purpose of interacting with that
> environment – by installing or removing packages, as Pip does – it must
> obey your explicit instruction on which Python environment and
> interpreter to use.
>
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