Can't Get Started Unable to Use PIP or Anything Else

[Joe Gancher]

Sorry for such an elementary topic but, I have to learn this and was brought to a screeching halt on step 1. I do have access to Idle for Python and I have installed Python via the Command Prompt. When I try to do any PIP, Install or easy_install BS4 or requests.... I get syntax errors or other errors.... Here's some examples:

Python 3.7.6 (tags/v3.7.6:43364a7ae0, Dec 19 2019, 01:54:44) [MSC v.1916 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32

Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license()" for more information.

>>> pip install requests

SyntaxError: invalid syntax

>>> curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py -o get-pip.py

SyntaxError: invalid syntax

>>> pip

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "<pyshell#2>", line 1, in <module>

    pip

NameError: name 'pip' is not defined

>>> pip3 install requests

SyntaxError: invalid syntax

>>> easy_install beautifulsoup4

SyntaxError: invalid syntax

>>> 

or ....

  File "<stdin>", line 1

    pip install requests

              ^

SyntaxError: invalid syntax

>>> curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py -o get-pip.py

  File "<stdin>", line 1

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

             ^

SyntaxError: invalid syntax

>>> curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py -o get-pip.py

  File "<stdin>", line 1

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

             ^

SyntaxError: invalid syntax

>>> curl http://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py -o get-pip.py

  File "<stdin>", line 1

    curl http://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py -o get-pip.py

            ^

SyntaxError: invalid syntax

>>> pip3 install requests

  File "<stdin>", line 1

    pip3 install requests

               ^

SyntaxError: invalid syntax

>>> easy_install beautifulsoup4

  File "<stdin>", line 1

    easy_install beautifulsoup4

                              ^

SyntaxError: invalid syntax

>>>

or...

>>> python --version

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "<pyshell#6>", line 1, in <module>

    python --version

NameError: name 'python' is not defined

>>> pip install requests

SyntaxError: invalid syntax

>>> 

=============================== RESTART: Shell ===============================

>>> pip install requesta

SyntaxError: invalid syntax

>>> pip install requests

SyntaxError: invalid syntax

>>> easy_install beautifulsoup4

SyntaxError: invalid syntax

>>> pip3 install requests

SyntaxError: invalid syntax

>>> 

Obviously I am doing something very fundamentally wrong in my setup. Your help is appreciated.

[leonardr]

Joe,

You're running these commands from within Python. Commands like "pip", "easy_install", "curl", etc. are intended to be run from the same command prompt you used to install Python. Hopefully pip was installed alongside Python and you can install packages from there.

Leonard