installing requests module in python 2.7 windows

Question

I am facing issues while installing request module (python 2.7) on windows.

Tried the below steps as per documentation:

1

pip

Answer 1

On windows 10 run cmd.exe with admin rights then type :

1) cd \Python27\scripts

2) pip install requests

It should work. My case was with python 2.7

Answer 2

There are four options here:

1. Get virtualenv set up. Each virtual environment you create will automatically have pip.

2. Get pip set up globally.

3. Learn how to install Python packages manually—in most cases it's as simple as download, unzip, python setup.py install, but not always.

4. Use Christoph Gohlke's binary installers.

Answer 3

1. Download the source code(zip or rar package).
2. Run the setup.py inside.

Answer 4

If you want to install requests directly you can use the "-m" (module) option available to python.

python.exe -m pip install requests

You can do this directly in PowerShell, though you may need to use the full python path (eg. C:\Python27\python.exe) instead of just python.exe.

As mentioned in the comments, if you have added Python to your path you can simply do:

python -m pip install requests