On Monday, June 11, 2018 at 7:24:58 PM UTC-4, Gregory Ewing wrote: > Tamara Berger wrote: > > I typed these 2 lines in the terminal: > > > > 192:~ TamaraB$ sudo python3 > > ... > >>>>python3 -m pip install pytest > > You need to enter this *single* line in the Terminal: > > sudo python3 -m pip install pytest > > > What does the "-m" stand for in the line of code? > > It's a cmmand-line option to the python interpreter > telling it to execute a module. > > (What you did was first launch the Python interpreter and > then tell it to run "python3 -m pip install pytest" as a > Python statement. But it's not Python code, it's a shell > command.) > > -- > Greg
Thanks, Greg, for your answer. It helped me out of that hole. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
