Installing pip using python interpreter

Question

I am reasonably new to the inner workings of Python.

I have been trying to solve the error seen here, Scrapy on Windows XP ImportError: No module named w3lib.html

I installed easy_install so I could re-install Scrapy but I could not get it to do anything. I can import easy_install in, but then I expected to be able to run something like easy_install /my_downloads/OtherPackage-3.2.1-py2.3.egg or easy_install http://example.com/path/to/MyPackage-1.2.3.tgz to get one of the dependencies installed, but obviously I'm doing it wrong.

I also do not know how to get pip installed from here http://www.pip-installer.org/en/latest/installing.html#using-the-installer

I guess my question is how do I run commands such as below? $ curl https://raw.github.com/pypa/pip/master/contrib/get-pip.py | python

I am using the latest free enthought package and I thought either the pylab interface or the python.exe would let me run this command. I guess I am just looking for a link or rundown on how to use the interpreter an install the required packages to solve the original problem.

Thanks for any help

Answer 1

to get easy_install, you want to install setuptools for windows using the executable installer provided here: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools

for example, if you are running Python 2.7 on 32-bit windows, the installer would be: setuptools-0.6c11.win32-py2.7.exe.

This will install setuptools, which places easy_install.exe in your C:\Python27\Scripts directory.

after it is installed, you could install pip (or any package from PyPI), like this:

C:\Python27\Scripts\easy_install pip

Answer 2

Start by installing Python using the official Python installer for Windows. Next, download and install setuptool for windows and finally pip for windows.

Once you have done that, you can then install scrapy using pip install scrapy.