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My end goal is to install the requests module, and the way to do that seems to be with pip. I have looked through the pip install documentation here http://www.pip-installer.org/en/latest/installing.html

The documentation has offered me no help. It tells me to "securely download get-pyp.py". I have been searching for a way to do this, and so far, everything I have seen recommends the command

curl --silent --show-error --retry 5 https://raw.github.com/pypa/pip/master/contrib/get-pip.py | sudo python2.7

I have been unable to figure out how to use this command. Curl is not a python command. I installed curl for windows and ran this command in windows command line, which worked, but I was unable to proceed from there. Is this intended to be installed with windows command line, or something else? I am lost.

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  • right-click on get-pip.py link, save as..., then run it as any python script. – njzk2 Mar 03 '14 at 21:48
  • cURL doesn't need to be a Python command. It is a bash executable that pipes the output into your Python. You can easily use `setup tools` to install `pip`. The command above works perfectly here. Install cURL for Windows first, from here; http://curl.haxx.se/download.html –  Mar 03 '14 at 21:48

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You can first install easy_install (which is part of set up tools) from the following location

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools#windows

Right click on the link and save the file ez_setup.py and then run it.

Once that is complete and you have added the scripts to your path variable (C...Python2.7..scripts), you can install pip using 

easy_install pip

Check out this video for more help.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIHYflJwyLk&feature=youtu.be

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  • Thank you! This method worked for me. I think I may have added the wrong thing to the path variable, because I was not able to run easy_install from the home directory, but I just navigated to C:/python27/scripts and it seemed to run and install from there. – user2453703 Mar 03 '14 at 22:22
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Download the correct version from here: http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#pip

And can find more info in this question: How do I install pip on Windows?

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