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 install requests

error

'pip' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

2

easy_install requests

error

'easy_install' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

3

setup.py

error

C:\Location\Python\lib\distutils\dist.py:267: UserWarning: Unknown distribution option: 'zip_safe' warnings.warn(msg)
C:\Location\Python\lib\distutils\dist.py:267: UserWarning: Unknown distribution option: 'include_package_data' warnings.warn(msg)
C:\Location\Python\lib\distutils\dist.py:267: UserWarning: Unknown distribution option: 'install_requires' warnings.warn(msg)
usage: setup.py [global_opts] cmd1 [cmd1_opts] [cmd2 [cmd2_opts] ...]
   or: setup.py --help [cmd1 cmd2 ...]
   or: setup.py --help-commands
   or: setup.py cmd --help

error: no commands supplied

Can anyone please advise how to install the module on windows , without downloading any new stuff.

Answer 1

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

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

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 4

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