pip - How do I install Python packages on Windows?

Question

I'm having a hard time setting up python packages. EasyInstall from SetupTools is supposed to help that, but they don't have an executable for Python 2.6.

For instance to install Mechanize, I'm just supposed to put the Mechanize folder in C:Python24Libsite-packages according to INSTALL.txt, but runnning the tests does not work. Can someone help shed some light on this? Thanks!

Answer 1

The accepted answer is outdated. So first, pip is preferred over easy_install, (Why use pip over easy_install?). Then follow these steps to install pip on Windows, it's quite easy.

1. Install setuptools:

   curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/ez_setup.py | python
   

2. Install pip:

   curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py | python
   

3. Optionally, you can add the path to your environment so that you can use pip anywhere. It's somewhere like C:Python33Scripts.