So it doesn’t work :) I’m not very familiar with Python on Windows (or
Windows, in general), but this really seems to be a problem related to this.

Have you also checked the permissions on the directory mentioned in the
PermissionDenied message?

2015-06-05 23:53 GMT+02:00 Steve Burrus <steveburru...@gmail.com>:

> oh I thought tha t I told you thsat I *was *able to make python/pip work!
> It's just this little thing about not being able to upgrade pip which
> bothers me, just a little bit. and I am not trying to run pip with any
> other User other than myself.
>
> On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 1:50 PM, Gergely Polonkai <gerg...@polonkai.eu>
> wrote:
>
>> It seems the very first thing you should do is make pip (and with that,
>> Python) work. For this, you may want to go to a Python related mailing
>> list, although I’m sure there are many overlapping between the Django list
>> and that one.
>>
>> 2015-06-05 20:05 GMT+02:00 Steve Burrus <steveburru...@gmail.com>:
>>
>>> well tqhat's okay. I was absolutely struggling to get pip installed
>>> correctly for quite a long time! I need to see more videos on how to start
>>> to work with Django. You have any tips about t hat?
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 12:43 PM, DHaval Joshi <dreamerd...@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> sry dear i don't know about windows installation.....
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 10:20 PM, Gergely Polonkai <gerg...@polonkai.eu>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>
>>>>> it seems that the user running pip doesn’t have write access to the
>>>>> temp directory. You should check the permissions of
>>>>> C:\Users\SteveB\AppData\Local\Temp and its subdirectories as you can see 
>>>>> in
>>>>> the PermissionError line (just change the double backslashes (\\) to 
>>>>> single
>>>>> ones (\).
>>>>>
>>>>> Is it possible that you run pip with a user other than the one you
>>>>> used to install Python?
>>>>>
>>>>> Best,
>>>>> Gergely
>>>>>
>>>>> 2015-06-05 18:41 GMT+02:00 Steve Burrus <steveburru...@gmail.com>:
>>>>>
>>>>>> well moknte I got good/bad news for you! The GOOD news is that I
>>>>>> finally got pip installed successfully but the BAD news is that I wasn't
>>>>>> able to upgrade pip. Here is the resulting error when I tried to do that 
>>>>>> :
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "C:\Users\SteveB>pip install --upgrade pip
>>>>>> You are using pip version 6.0.8, however version 7.0.3 is available.
>>>>>> You should consider upgrading via the 'pip install --upgrade pip'
>>>>>> command.
>>>>>> Collecting pip from
>>>>>> https://pypi.python.org/packages/py2.py3/p/pip/pip-7.0.3-py2.py3-none-any.whl#md5=6950e1d775fea7ea50af690f72589dbd
>>>>>>   Using cached pip-7.0.3-py2.py3-none-any.whl
>>>>>> Installing collected packages: pip
>>>>>>   Found existing installation: pip 6.0.8
>>>>>>     Uninstalling pip-6.0.8:
>>>>>>       Successfully uninstalled pip-6.0.8
>>>>>>   Exception:
>>>>>>   Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>>>>     File "C:\Python34\lib\shutil.py", line 371, in
>>>>>> _rmtree_unsafe os.unlink(fullname)
>>>>>>   PermissionError: [WinError 5] Access is denied:
>>>>>> 'C:\\Users\\SteveB\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-xfly9791-uninstall\\python34\\scripts\\pip.exe'
>>>>>>
>>>>>>   During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>   Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>>>>     File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\pip\basecommand.py", line
>>>>>> 232, in main
>>>>>>       return PREVIOUS_BUILD_DIR_ERROR
>>>>>>     File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\pip\commands\install.py",
>>>>>> line 347, in run
>>>>>>       if os.path.islink(target_item_dir):
>>>>>>     File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\pip\req\req_set.py", line
>>>>>> 560, in install
>>>>>>       self.successfully_downloaded.append(req_to_install)
>>>>>>     File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\pip\req\req_install.py", line
>>>>>> 680, in commit_uninstall
>>>>>>     File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\pip\req\req_uninstall.py",
>>>>>> line 153, in commit
>>>>>>       rmtree(self.save_dir)
>>>>>>     File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\pip\_vendor\retrying.py",
>>>>>> line 49, in wrapped_f
>>>>>>       return Retrying(*dargs, **dkw).call(f, *args, **kw)
>>>>>>     File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\pip\_vendor\retrying.py",
>>>>>> line 212, in call
>>>>>>       raise attempt.get()
>>>>>>     File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\pip\_vendor\retrying.py",
>>>>>> line 247, in get
>>>>>>       six.reraise(self.value[0], self.value[1], self.value[2])
>>>>>>     File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\pip\_vendor\six.py", line
>>>>>> 659, in reraise
>>>>>>       raise value
>>>>>>     File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\pip\_vendor\retrying.py",
>>>>>> line 200, in call
>>>>>>       attempt = Attempt(fn(*args, **kwargs), attempt_number, False)
>>>>>>     File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\pip\utils\__init__.py", line
>>>>>> 61, in rmtree
>>>>>>       try:
>>>>>>     File "C:\Python34\lib\shutil.py", line 478, in rmtree
>>>>>>       return _rmtree_unsafe(path, onerror)
>>>>>>     File "C:\Python34\lib\shutil.py", line 368, in _rmtree_unsafe
>>>>>>       _rmtree_unsafe(fullname, onerror)
>>>>>>     File "C:\Python34\lib\shutil.py", line 368, in _rmtree_unsafe
>>>>>>       _rmtree_unsafe(fullname, onerror)
>>>>>>     File "C:\Python34\lib\shutil.py", line 373, in _rmtree_unsafe
>>>>>>       onerror(os.unlink, fullname, sys.exc_info())
>>>>>>     File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\pip\utils\__init__.py", line
>>>>>> 73, in rmtree_errorhandler
>>>>>>       raise
>>>>>>   PermissionError: [WinError 5] Access is denied:
>>>>>> 'C:\\Users\\SteveB\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-xfly9791-uninstall\\python34\\scripts\\pip.exe'
>>>>>>  "
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Now what's wrong?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 10:51 AM, Steve Burrus <
>>>>>> steveburru...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Okay Monte I will certsainly "man up" and start over and try to do
>>>>>>> what you said. Incidentally I have done the "Add python.exe to the PATH"
>>>>>>> thing that you suggested but it still failed! I have done all of the
>>>>>>> configuration the right way but I still simply cannot type "pip" [into 
>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>> command line] and get all of the pip commands.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Thursday, June 4, 2015 at 10:30:36 PM UTC-5, Monte Milanuk wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Stop.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Uninstall python (whatever version(s) you have).
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Re-install python (3.4.3), but this time when you get to the screen
>>>>>>>> telling you what all is going to be installed, scroll down and
>>>>>>>> enable
>>>>>>>> the last item "Add python.exe to the PATH".
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Python commands (including pip) should work from the command line
>>>>>>>> with
>>>>>>>> no problem.  I did *exactly* this as a test this afternoon, and
>>>>>>>> told you
>>>>>>>> so earlier. Quit flailing about and start over.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
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