How To Install PIP On MacOS / Windows

PIP is a very important tool for any python project, it allows you to install packages to use in your Python projects. In order to get started, make sure to have Python installed, use this article I made in order to get Python on your computer. Most the time, if you have Python installed on your machine you will probably already have PIP, but nonetheless, installing PIP is pretty much the same on both MacOS / Windows!

First off, let’s make sure we don’t already have PIP installed on our machine, go ahead and type in “pip help” in your terminal / command prompt, if you get a output like this:

then that means pip is already installed, if it shows your something like “pip command not found”, then you probably don’t have pip installed.

Installation:

On your PC, make your way over to this website: https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py , right click on the code and click “Save Page As”, make sure to save the page as a .py file.

Once saved, you want to go to your terminal / command prompt, and type in “python” plus the directory to where you stored your get-pip.py file at, here is an example of what it looks like:

At this point, go ahead and type in “pip help” and look at the output, if your output looks like this:

then you successfully installed PIP on your machine! To install packages, use either the “pip” command for Python 2 or “pip3” for Python 3!

Some Examples: “pip install pandas” , “pip install numpy”, “pip3 install tensorflow”, etc.