When I type python3 --version in terminal it shows Python 3.6.0.
When I type in pip --version it shows
pip 9.0.1 from /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-9.0.1-py2.7.egg (python 2.7)
How do I get it from Python/2.7 to Python/3.6?
3 Answers
From Python 3.4 pip is baked into standard Python. You can use it like,
python3 -m pip install SomePackage
as mentioned in the Python Docs.
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Vikram Hosakote
This worked for me and I was able to install the
requests package for python3 by doing python3 -m pip install requests on Mac.The guaranteed cross-platform way to run a module 'mod' with a particular python version 'pythonx' is
pythonx -m mod
On Windows, with the py launcher, I might run any of
py -2.7 -m pip
py -3.5 -m pip
py -3.6 -m pip
There is then no question which python and pip combination I will get. Other systems with one 2.x and 3.x version installed can use
python2 -m pip
python3 -m pip
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Mac OS X 10.8+ come with Python 2.7 installed by default. This is why when you try to see what your pip version is, it comes back with 9.0.1 from Python 2.7. You shouldn't ever uninstall or move the system-installed Python because it's used internally by the Mac OS and other third-party developers, but a quick workaround is to just use pip3 in place of pip.
A helpful resource on using Python 3 with Mac OS X can be found in the Python docs.
pip3 --version?pipalready installed.pip3instead ofpipfor Python 3.6.0.