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Python Installing Python

Posted by Robin Kuehn
Robin Kuehn
6,366 Points

How do I download Pip? I downloaded Python from their page and tried to download easy_install but it didn't work.

This is the error that I get when I try to use easy_install to download Pip3. Not sure what to do.

Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/bin/easy_install", line 11, in <module> load_entry_point('setuptools==28.8.0', 'console_scripts', 'easy_install')() File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Extras/lib/python/pkg_resources.py", line 357, in load_entry_point return get_distribution(dist).load_entry_point(group, name) File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Extras/lib/python/pkg_resources.py", line 2394, in load_entry_point return ep.load() File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Extras/lib/python/pkg_resources.py", line 2108, in load entry = import(self.module_name, globals(),globals(), ['name']) File "build/bdist.macosx-10.11-intel/egg/setuptools/init.py", line 10, in <module> File "build/bdist.macosx-10.11-intel/egg/setuptools/extern/init.py", line 1, in <module> ImportError: No module named extern

Benjamin Lange
Benjamin Lange
16,178 Points
Benjamin Lange
Benjamin Lange
16,178 Points

It looks like the install is using Python 2. Can you check to be sure that you computer is running Python 3? What command are you entering to start the install or pip3?

2 Answers

Allison Schaaf
Allison Schaaf
33,322 Points

I just downloaded Python 3.6 from python.org and the latest version of pip was included (you can see in the video at 2:02 when Kenneth gets to the custom install screen, that his 3.5 download also included a pip installation or upgrade).

Make sure you exit() out of the python shell before typing pip3 --version (otherwise you get an error).

saif ahmad
saif ahmad
6,352 Points
saif ahmad
saif ahmad
6,352 Points

pip install peewee will do it if you are working on your own environment