Install pip for Python 3

Question

When I type python3 --version in terminal it shows Python 3.6.0.

When I type in pip --version it shows

pip 9.0.1 from /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-9.0.1-py2.7.egg (python 2.7)

How do I get it from Python/2.7 to Python/3.6?

Solution 1

From Python 3.4 pip is baked into standard Python. You can use it like,

python3 -m pip install SomePackage

as mentioned in the Python Docs.

Solution 2

The guaranteed cross-platform way to run a module 'mod' with a particular python version 'pythonx' is

pythonx -m mod

On Windows, with the py launcher, I might run any of

py -2.7 -m pip
py -3.5 -m pip
py -3.6 -m pip

There is then no question which python and pip combination I will get. Other systems with one 2.x and 3.x version installed can use

python2 -m pip
python3 -m pip

Comments

[m0nhawk]

What about pip3 --version?

[Harsh Khajuria]

pip 9.0.1 from /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python‌​3.6/site-packages (python 3.6)

[m0nhawk]

So, you have pip already installed.

[Harsh Khajuria]

I was basically watching a Django tutorial by Derek Banas and he said that it should show Python/3.x Version when I type in pip --version

[Harsh Khajuria]

So what is going on in here?

[m0nhawk]

You just need to use pip3 instead of pip for Python 3.6.0.

[Harsh Khajuria]

How do you know all this stuff? Can you point me to some documentation that I can read so that I can figure this stuff by myself? Thank you.

[narendra-choudhary]

@HarshKhajuria Either change default python version to python3 or use virtualenv. Using virtualenv is recommended way to go.

[Vikram Hosakote]

This worked for me and I was able to install the requests package for python3 by doing python3 -m pip install requests on Mac.