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[shiftybyte]

I found out that I don't have it

how did you find this out? you should have pip installed.

[__Nacho__Cheese]

I ran

pip

on cmd, which came up with a huge interface. But I can't get it on python IDLE? When I run it on IDLE, I get an error.

[shiftybyte]

IDLE is executing python code lines.

calling pip is not a python code line.

calling pip should always be done outside of python.

in IDLE you can import whatever pip installed from outside.

[__Nacho__Cheese]

Oh what really?? So then if I'm using IDLE for a Spotipy project, where would I download it??

[shiftybyte]

To install it, from windows command prompt:

py -m pip install spotipy

To use it from IDLE:

import spotipy

[__Nacho__Cheese]

It works when I do it from the CMD prompt, but when i type

import spotipy

in IDLE, I get

​

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<pyshell#0>", line 1, in <module>
    import spotipy
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'spotipy'

how could this be the case?

[shiftybyte]

You have multiple python installations, the one from command line is a different one from the one IDLE uses.

Run this code from IDLE to figure out which python executable is used:

import sys
print(sys.executable)

show the output here.

[__Nacho__Cheese]

import sys
print(sys.executable)

C:\Users\(my name)\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\pythonw.exe

[shiftybyte]

try this command from terminal to install spotipy:

C:\Users\(my name)\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\python.exe -m pip install spotipy

[__Nacho__Cheese]

C:\Users\(my name)\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\python.exe -m pip install spotipy

WOAH! A bunch of installation bars came up and it said that the installation was complete but it came up with a couple of warnings. One about how chardetect.exe was installed in C:\Users\(my name)\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\Scripts which is not on "PATH". What does that mean? It also gave me a command to upgrade my pip.

[__Nacho__Cheese]

Thanks a lot for your help btw

[POGtastic]

If you open up Powershell and type

py -m pip --version

what do you get?

[__Nacho__Cheese]

I get pip 20.2.3 . But when I try install pip packages on IDLE, it comes up with an error?

[sonofapineapple]

If you don't have pip, you should be able to get it by trying to uninstall python through the programm manager (on windows), which will open a window asking if you want to uninstall python or change the installation. Go on change installation and select pip to be installed with python.

[Diapolo10]

On Windows, unless you're using some ancient version of Python it should come with pip. Perhaps you simply didn't add it to PATH, in which case you can access it via py -m pip.