'pip' is not recognized as an internal or external command

Question

I\'m running into a weird error when trying to install Django on my computer.

This is the sequence that I typed into my command line:

Answer 1

Small clarification: in "Windows 7 64 bit PC", after adding ...Python34\Scripts to the path variable, pip install pygame didn't work for me.

So I checked the "...Python34\Scripts" folder, it didn't have pip, but it had pip3 and pip3.4. So I ran pip3.4 install pygame .... .whl. It worked.

(Further open a command window in the same folder where you have the downloaded pygame...whl file.)

Answer 2

For Windows, when you install a package, you type:

python -m pip install [packagename]

Answer 3

As per Python 3.6 Documentation

It is possible that pip does not get installed by default. One potential fix is:

python -m ensurepip --default-pip

Answer 4

Most frequently it is:

in cmd.exe write

python -m pip install --user [name of your module here without brackets]

Answer 5

In a Windows environment, just execute the below commands in a DOS shell.

path=%path%;D:\Program Files\python3.6.4\Scripts; (new path=current path;path of the Python script folder)

Answer 6

Also, the long method - it was a last resort after trying all previous answers:

C:\python27\scripts\pip.exe install [package].whl

This after cd in directory where the wheel is located.