Pip install giving SyntaxError in Anaconda

Question

I installed anaconda2 over python 2.7 and i am on Windows 10. when I am trying to use pip , Syntax error is coming. I am using basic cmd to access pip , even without the environment variable thing , it's not working . Can anybody explain what am I doing wrong ?

Error:

C:\Users\Yash gupta\Anaconda2\Scripts>python
Python 2.7.13 |Anaconda 4.4.0 (64-bit)| (default, May 11 2017, 13:17:26) [MSC v.1500 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32
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>>> pip install bs4
  File "<stdin>", line 1
    pip install bs4
              ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>>>

Answer 1

you are using pip in python environment.

You must quit python and run pip install bs4 with the shell.

If you want to install the library only in a specific anaconda environment, lunch the source activate <yourEnv> command and then use pip install .