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I have just started using python and I have set up python3 to be installed in C:\Python37 dir. I have added python3 path to environment variables. When I run python3 -m pip install [package_name] it installs it in C:\Python37\Lib\site-packages. But when I try to install pylint with python3 -m pip install pylint it prints:

Requirement already satisfied: pylint in c:\users\radio\appdata\roaming\python\python37\site-packages (2.3.1)

It's installing it in above mentioned completely different location, and then VS Code complains how pylint is not installed. Why doesn't pip install it in C:\Python37\Lib\site-packages where it installs all the other packages?

Gervasius Twinklewinkleson
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It seems you might have multiple python installations on the computer or you are not running CMD with administrator priviledges when using pip. I would refer you to this thread: windows pip installing libraries in wrong directory which seems to deal with a problem similar to the one you are having.

I would also try checking the environment variables to see the path set for Python if that doesn't work.

alex_bits
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