How to Install pip in Microsoft Windows

Introduction

In this article, the main substance is about hot to install ‘pip’ program or binary file for further command execution. Actually, ‘pip’ program or binary file is very important in order to develop application using python as its main tool or programming language. The reason is because ‘pip’ is actually a python package manager useful for installing additional packages, modules or libraries.

How to Install pip in Microsoft Windows

So, how is exactly the steps for installing pip especially in a device running using Microsoft Windows. The following are the steps to achieve it :

1. Basically, it is using python in order to install pip. So, first of all, just install python in the operating system. There is an article with the title of ‘How to Install Python in Microsoft Windows’ in this link to show the process for python installation.

2. Next, download a python script for install pip program or binary file. It exist in this link. Make sure to identify where the exact location of that downloaded python script with the name of ‘get-pip.py’.

3. After successfully download that python script for installing the pip program, just execute it. In order to execute it, just run the following program in the command line interface :

   python get-pip.py

4. Soon after, if the above command execution is a success, just execute ‘pip’ in the command line as follows :

   C:\>pip --version
   pip 21.0.1 from c:\python38\lib\site-packages\pip (python 3.8)
   C:\>pip -V 
   pip 21.0.1 from c:\python38\lib\site-packages\pip (python 3.8) 
   C:\>

   As it exist in the form of the above output command the ‘pip’ execution command is a success. The above command is only containing one single parameter -version or -V. It is a parameter for describing the version of the ‘pip’ tool. It is far by the most simple command for checking whether the command or the tool of ‘pip’ is exist or not.

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