How do I run a program installed with pip in windows?

Question

I installed a program with pip (e.g. simple-plotter) in windows using the following command:

py -m pip install simple-plotter

How do I run the program I installed? In Linux, I can just type the command in a terminal, but if I type in windows, I get a "not recognized as an internal or external command" or if I run in Python I get a "No module named" error.

Answer 1

If you've installed a package via the Windows Store version of Python, try using:

pip show <package>

(Where <package> is the package you installed).

Then it should include the following:

Location: C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python<some_text>\LocalCache\local-packages\Python<version>\site-packages

Make sure to change the end of the path (\site-packages) to \Scripts

Once you have this path, follow the other answer.

TIP: A quick shortcut to get to your environment variables is to search up "environment":

Answer 2

I think the error occurs because the Scripts folder is not on PATH in the environment variables, while in Linux it probably is (I don't know a lot of Linux so I don't know how environment variables work there, anyway):

the best way to solve this is by adding the Scripts python folder to PATH: In my case it is C:\Users\MyUser\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\Scripts

So, press WIN(windows key) + PAUSE_BREAK(near print screen key)

Then click on Advanced System Configuration (Sorry if it's not accurate, my system is in portuguese)

After that click in Environment Variables

Then, select Path and click edit

Click in new, add the path and hit the OKs

Answer 3

According to https://pypi.org/project/simple-plotter/0.2.2/

python -m simple_plotter.gui

So maybe on windows

py -m simple_plotter.gui