However, the older versions of Python don't have this advantage by default. The latest releases Python 3.4+ and Python 2.7.9+, as well as the virtual environments virtualenv and pyvenv, automatically ship with PIP (we can check our Python version by running python -version or python -V in the command line). Now that we verified that Python is installed on Windows (or, if it was not, have installed it), let's check if PIP is already installed on our system. If you need further guidance on how to properly install Python on Windows, you can use this article in the Dataquest blog: Tutorial: Installing Python on Windows. This means that Python is either not installed on our local machine or is installed incorrectly and needs setting system variables. 'python' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. In the opposite case, we will see the following notification: If Python is properly installed, we will see a notification like the one below: To verify that Python is available on our local machine, we need to open the command line (in Windows search, type cmd and press Enter to open Command Prompt or right-click on the Start button and select Windows PowerShell), type python, and press Enter. How to Install PIP on Windowsīefore proceeding to PIP installation on Windows, we need to make sure that Python is already installed and PIP is not installed. If necessary, PIP can also connect to another local or online repository as long as it complies to PEP 503. In more practical terms, PIP is a widely used package-management system designed to install libraries that aren't included in the standard distribution of the Python programming language on our local machine - and then manage them from the command line.īy default, PIP fetches such libraries from Python Package Index (PyPI), which is a central online repository containing a vast collection of third-party packages for various applications. PIP stands for 'PIP Installs Packages', which is a recursive acronym (the one that refers to itself) coined by its creator.

In this tutorial, we will identify PIP for Python, when we use it, how to install it, how to check its version, how to configure it on Windows, and how to upgrade (or downgrade) it.

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