Python 3 Programming Tutorial - Installing modules

At this point, you've got all the basics necessary to start employing modules.

We still have to teach classes, among a few other necessary basics, but now would be a good time to talk about modules.

IF you are using linux, installing Python modules is incredibly stupid easy. For programming, linux is just lovely when it comes to installing packages for just about whatever. I believe mac allows similar treatment, though I've not done it myself.

At the time of starting Python, a large part of my troubles was that I didn't actually understand the process of getting a module, and this is obviously very frustrating.

Python is going to look in a few places for modules.

That's going to be site-packages and the script's directory for the most part. There are some other places you can use, but let's leave them out of it. Knowing this allows you yourself to make your own modules, in the form of just a script if you want, putting that in the same directory as your main script, and then using import to bring it on board, you can also place multiple scripts in a dir and use that. Once you begin to familiarize yourself with this, and understand how and why things work, it will help you a lot.

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[j.hanleysmith]

pip install is now included with python3 for Windows. in CMD you can pip install lots of modules. very easy!

[sentdex]

Dark Code The intro sound you are hearing is the sound a GPU makes when making a lot of FLOPs. At least to me, they are two very distinct sounds. If you've never actually heard a high-end GPU doing work, I suppose you might not recognize it.

[falak]

for windows installation, open anaconda prompt from start menu and install the module using pip install moduleName
this is the easiest way i've found so far!

[juliecatte]

Hey +Sentdex I just wanted to let you know that your videos are really awesome, they're fun to watch, and you have a fantastic personality. Your videos have been really helping me out, and I've been having fun watching them. Thank you for all the time and work you've put into all of this!

[ThreadzNGear]

Thank you so much for posting this video. Saved me a bunch of future headaches!

[made_by_fizix]

Not sure if it's already been mentioned here, but the windows equivalent of ls is dir

[garyjohansen]

Outstanding, after days of trying to learn some python and get some modules installed and not once did I read depress shift key and right click and open in command window

I've installed 4 modules in less than 5 minutes with your help (already had downloaded the tarballs)  -  Thanx again

[megaDEEP]

Thank you a lot to help us over the career and learning with these wonder full videos, just a sort cut for cm in windows you can just type cmd in address bar of the particular folder and the cmd will open with that directory path. Again thanks a lot

[sentdex]

Luke, I am not being given a reply option on your comment, but what error are you throwing?

[BluePieNinjaTV]

in windows, the equivalent for ls is dir.

And your tutorials are great!

[DreamerSurjit]

you can also type cmd in the path bar in the explorer. and it'll open cmd in the current folder..
it works on windows 10.. not sure if it'll work on windows 7

[TJ-qkyg]

Loving the channel but I feel this video could be updated and needs a bit more depth. Did Command Prompt change to Windows PowerShell? What is a module in the first place? Also, i'm pretty sure I got it installed and i'm sure you will cover it later in the series. But wth did I just install on my computer and how do I access it? This video left me wondering wtf. Just a small critique otherwise keep up the great work!

[nuruljanah]

i could not open with OPEN IN COMMAND WINDOW cos its not in the list. pls help

[vibhore]

+sentdex hey thanks for laughing in between the tutorials and keeping them short. These are Gr8 !! :D

[hamza_belmellouki]

great job just want to verify something since I'm quite new to programming, this is not working in my mac, please in your opinion what should i do in this case ? sorry if thats a really nooby question

[qianzhao]

Thank you for sharing this!
I have a issue with windows. I don't find a open command windows here. What should I do?

[riyazshah]

what's the command for powershell to install setup?

[FB-trkf]

I keep getting "the system cannot find the path specified" on my command prompt when I type in C:/Python64/Scripts/pip install after having numpy in my downloads folder. why is this? What am I doing wrong...(Windows 10)

[jasonhogan]

It is a lot simpler and easier to code and install modules on linux so if any of you are having issues with it on windows I highly recommend dual booting linux and using that for coding and windows for gaming and other stuff.

[yunfeiyang]

time: 6:16 For Mac user, I think in that folder: python setup.py install