Why does “pip install” inside Python raise a SyntaxError?

Question

I\'m trying to use pip to install a package. I try to run pip install from the Python shell, but I get a SyntaxError. Why do I get this error? H

Answer 1

Programmatically, the following currently works. I see all the answers post 10.0 and all, but none of them are the correct path for me. Within Kaggle for sure, this apporach works

from pip._internal import main as _main

package_names=['pandas'] #packages to install
_main(['install'] + package_names + ['--upgrade'])