Running (not installing - installed already) pip on windows

Question

I have installed PIP successfully on Windows. However, the only instructions I see to run appear to be of the format $ pip install xxxx - which I take to be Linux command line

I'm on Windows 8. I know PIP installed but I want to run it but I'll be darn if I can find anything that shows me how. I see lots of questions on installation but nothing to say do this to actually run pip on a windows box.

Would appreciate any insights on what I'mk missing here.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

As long as the path to pip.exe is in your PATH, you can open the Windows command line and use pip there. For example, if you're running Python 2.7, pip.exe should be in C:\Python27\Scripts. For Python 3.4, it'll be in C:\Python34\Scripts. If you installed the python.org version of Python properly, this should already be in your PATH.

To open the Windows command line, hit WinR to open the Run dialog, type cmd, and hit OK or Enter, and the command line will open. Type in pip and hit Enter, and pip's usage information should show up. If it does not, see this question for how to add a directory to your PATH. Once you've done that, you'll need to restart cmd for the changes to take effect.

Good luck!