Hi, Thanks Ben for the response. I followed your suggestion and this is what i get:
"python3 -m pip3 install LoremIpsum /usr/local/opt/python3/bin/python3.5: No module named pip3" "python3 -m pip install LoremIpsum /usr/local/opt/python3/bin/python3.5: No module named pip" How do I fix this? Regards, Vishal Subbiah Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering Masters Student Stanford University On Sun, Oct 30, 2016 at 5:37 PM, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote: > Vishal Subbiah <subbiahvis...@gmail.com> writes: > > > So I wads trying to install some packages for python3. when I run pip3 > > in terminal > > There is no guarantee that a command named ‘pip3’ will be installed. > > Instead, you should invoke the exact Python interpreter you want – and, > by extension, the Python environment into which you want packages > installed. > > $ /foo/bar/virtualenv/bin/python3 -m pip install LoremIpsum > > If you already have a specific environment active and know that > ‘python3’ is the correct Python interpreter from that environment, you > can omit the explicit path. > > $ python3 -m pip install LoremIpsum > > ---- > > Why doesn't a command ‘pip’ or ‘pip3’ do the job? Because there's no > guarantee that will use the specific Python environment you want. > > For many programs, it simply doesn't matter which Python interpreter – > or even *whether* a Python interpreter or Perl interpreter or etc. – is > the one that runs. > > So most Python-implemented programs you don't need to specify which > interpreter; they know how to find it themselves, and your choice of a > different environment should not affect their operation. > > But for a command that has the primary purpose of interacting with that > environment – by installing or removing packages, as Pip does – it must > obey your explicit instruction on which Python environment and > interpreter to use. > > -- > \ “It ain't so much the things we don't know that get us in | > `\ trouble. It's the things we know that ain't so.” —Artemus Ward | > _o__) (1834–1867), U.S. journalist | > Ben Finney > > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
