Posting warning message
Gregory Ewing
greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Mon Jun 11 19:24:40 EDT 2018
Tamara Berger wrote:
> I typed these 2 lines in the terminal:
>
> 192:~ TamaraB$ sudo python3
> ...
>>>>python3 -m pip install pytest
You need to enter this *single* line in the Terminal:
sudo python3 -m pip install pytest
> What does the "-m" stand for in the line of code?
It's a cmmand-line option to the python interpreter
telling it to execute a module.
(What you did was first launch the Python interpreter and
then tell it to run "python3 -m pip install pytest" as a
Python statement. But it's not Python code, it's a shell
command.)
--
Greg
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