[Distutils] Installing packages using pip

[Chris Barker]

On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 8:06 AM, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:

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

Now that we are talking about how to invoke the installer on other
threads...

This is NOT the least bit a rare mistake for newbies. Maybe we should have
a way to install right from inside the python REPL.

That would certainly clear up the "which python is this going to get
installed into" problem.

-CHB







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