How to install pip on python 3.6, not the default python 2.7?

Question

So all day, I have been trying to install pip. I've executed curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py > get-pip.py. Then sudo python get-pip.py. Next I went to install numpy with sudo pip install numpy. Finally, I opened up the python 3.6 IDLE and I tried to import numpy as np and got an error saying that the module didn't exist.

I found out that the pip was installed in /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages so I deleted 2.7 from the directory. I redid the whole process again and got the same error :|

I'm wondering if I need to change the default python which I've been told is not wise. What do I do? I' sure I've deleted everything with python 2.7 in it?

MacBookAir OSX - Sierra

Or is there an alternate way that I can install numpy in python 3.6????

Solution

You shouldn't delete the system python. Delete nothing in /Library/Python or it's subfolders.

How did you install python 3.6? Usually, it'll be installed as python3.6 with a symlink to python3. pip3 is usually installed with it.

So what you probably wanted to do was:

pip3 install numpy
python3
>>> import numpy

Comments

[MaddTheSane]

python3 -m pip will also reliably use the python installation you want.

[Fizics]

I downloaded python 3.6 straight from the python.org website. I will keep your first comment in mind and I'll try your suggestions. Thanks