[Distutils] Installing packages using pip

[Paul Moore]

On 6 November 2015 at 14:33, Ines Barata <inesbarataborges at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I want to install the following version of pygame in my
> windows10.pro:install pygame-1.9.2a0-cp33-none-win_amd64.whl, but the file
> is in .whl format which I dont have any program to open it
> I checked the information in https://docs.python.org/3/installing/ to
> understand how to use pip. But didn't make it...
>
> My result is the following, using python3.5.0 IDLE:
>>>> pip install pygame-1.9.2a0-cp34-none-win32.whl
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax

That's the correct command, but you need to run it from the Windows
command prompt, not from within IDLE.

Paul