How to Install Python PIP on Windows?

In this tutorial, you will learn to install Python pip on your Windows PC.

How to install python pip on windows?

Before we install pip in windows, let us understand what pip is and what does it do. PIP stands for “Preferred Installer Program”. It is a package management system used to install and manage software packages/libraries written in Python. Whenever you try installing a package through pip, pip will search for that package on PyPI and if found, it will download and install the package on your local system. Python Package Index (PyPI) is an online repository for python packages.

Download and Installing pip on Windows:

Click here to download the pip file: get-pip.py

• When you visit the above webpage, it will be in a binary version. Copy the whole page and paste them in new python file and save the file as ‘get-pip’ in the same location where python is saved.
• Copy the ‘get-pip’ location by pressing ctrl+L, now, open your command prompt and enter cd followed by the copied location/address of the ‘get-pip’ file.
• Now, Run the command given below:

python get-pip.py

• Now press enter, pip will be installed.

To verify the installation of pip:

Run the following code in the command prompt.

pip –V

This will show the installed pip version on your computer.