Selenium Python installation issue

Question

I have followed the instruction from the site: http://selenium-python.readthedocs.org/en/latest/installation.html

I followed the section : Detailed instructions for Windows users:

completed step-1- by downloading and installing it (python-2.7.3.msi) to my windows . Now i got confuesd about the 2nd step. What i need to i can't understand ,i just downloaded the "pypa-virtualenv-1.8.1-74-g2adac08.tar.gz" and unzipped it to the folder "D:\Python and Selenium". Both the step-1 mentioned MSI .exe file and this .zip file present in the same directory as I just mentioned.

I also tried the below ,but got errors:

    Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7600]
    Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

    C:\Users\Arup Rakshit>cd..

    C:\Users>cd..

    C:\>d:

    D:\>cd D:\Python and Selenium\pypa-virtualenv-2adac08

    D:\Python and Selenium\pypa-virtualenv-2adac08>pip install https://github.com/py
   pa/virtualenv/tarball/develop
   'pip' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
    operable program or batch file.

    D:\Python and Selenium\pypa-virtualenv-2adac08>

Can you now guide me to install it on my PC succesfully?

UPDATE

  Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7600]
  Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

  C:\Users\Arup Rakshit>cd..

  C:\Users>cd..

  C:\>cd Python27

  C:\Python27>cd python.exe
 The directory name is invalid.

 C:\Python27>python.exe virtualenv.py selenv
  python.exe: can't open file 'virtualenv.py': [Errno 2] No such file or directory


 C:\Python27>
 C:\Python27>

Seems you didn't install pip or it is not in your PATH. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4750806/how-to-install-pip-on-windows — philippe lhardy, Dec 15 '12 at 12:10
a lots of conversion is there went on.. so can you brief me in my case what should i do? I just python-2.7.3.msi downloaded and installed it running the .exe file and .zip file has been downloaded and kept in the description mentioned directory. — arun_roy, Dec 15 '12 at 12:15

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 15 '12 at 14:03

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You need to have this file in your folder:

virtualenv.py

And then with the command line run:

C:\Python27\python.exe virtualenv.py selenv

After that you will have a subfolder named "selenv". With the command line run :

selenv\Scripts\pip.exe install selenium

And check if you can run your python-selenium scripts with selenv\Scripts\python.exe my_selenium_script.py

Note that you need to use the full path to pip , since you do not have it in the windows PATH

answered Dec 15 '12 at 14:03

rowasc

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In this folder- "D:\Python and Selenium" i have "python-2.7.3.msi" and "pypa-virtualenv-2adac08" folder. And within the folder i have the "setup.py" and "virtualenv.py" . – arun_roy Dec 15 '12 at 14:11
please confirm in which folder you want me to put the "virtualenv.py" file? – arun_roy Dec 15 '12 at 14:13
Yes it is Done!! Thank you very much!!Suarez... :-) – arun_roy Dec 15 '12 at 15:00
awesome, glad I could help . Sorry that I did not answer before to help with your comments, I was not at the computer. – rowasc Dec 15 '12 at 15:49
Can you help me in my below post by giving any idea? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13887819/webpage-filed-level-details-data-extraction-and-saving-it-to-excel-using-seleniu#comment19132775_13887819 – arun_roy Dec 15 '12 at 16:29
@TheMiddleMan I have updated the documentation based on your feedback. Please let me know if any other suggestion. – baijum Apr 21 '13 at 16:09

Selenium Python installation issue

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