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T Berger
brgrt2 at gmail.com
Tue Jun 12 09:50:25 EDT 2018
On Monday, June 11, 2018 at 7:24:58 PM UTC-4, Gregory Ewing wrote:
> 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
Thanks, Greg, for your answer. It helped me out of that hole.
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