Python Installing Modules on Mac OS

Question

I am new to Python and terminal prompts/installs and I keep running into installation errors when trying to install modules like Pandas.

I have successfully installed "pip install pandas" I am unable to install this with pip3 however.

Collecting pandas
  Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement pandas (from versions: )
No matching distribution found for pandas 

I have pip3 installed and python3(this comes with mac os). I do not understand the conflict between the versions. If I install using pip, its only compatible with python2? Why wouldnt I be able to install it using pip3 (see error above)?

Am I somehow installing in the wrong directories or not making the correct distinction for python3 and pip3 version compatibility? Thanks for any insight.

Answer 1

As already said in the comments, pip installs modules for python2. Also, you can't run pandas as a command on the shell.

pip3 install pandas works for me, on python3 (v3.7.4), which was installed directly from a Mac installer package on the python website . No 'environment configuration' was required.

>pip3 install pandas
Collecting pandas
  Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/ab/ba/f97030b7e8ec0a981abdca173de4e727b3a7b4ed5dba492f362ba87d59a2/pandas-1.0.1-cp37-cp37m-macosx_10_9_x86_64.whl (9.8MB)
    100% |████████████████████████████████| 9.8MB 2.8MB/s 

If you've installed python3 using some different method, then you may need to install packages differently or configure your python installation in some way.