Python: pip cannot be called after installation

Question

I am using Python27 on Windows 7. I have installed easy_install and tried to install pip. easy_install works. But, pip is not.

I keep getting an error saying:

'The term 'pip' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program...' when I type pip --help

I did check the environment variable and Python27 and Scripts were in the path. I tried to reinstall pip and it says: 'Requirement already up-to-date: pip in c:\python27\lib\site-packages Cleaning up...'

It sounds like for some reason it cannot find pip in the list of scripts. Any idea how to fix this.

Answer 1

Maybe your PATHEXT environment variable is not configured to consider python scripts as executable. Check whether the PowerShell command below outputs a string with a '.PY' fragment on your computer. If not - well - add this fragment to this env. var. :)

 PS C:\Users\blabla> echo $Env:PATHEXT
    .COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH;.MSC;.PY

EDIT: For the above to work, of course the .py extension has to be associated with python.