You don't put it in vscode, you execute it in a terminal. For example, "pip install requests" will install the requests library globally. Ideally, you want to create a virtual environment, then invoke/activate it, then install your dependency, and then run your code from the same terminal in which you created, activated and installed the dependency: This is the standard way of doing it: https://docs.python.org/3/library/venv.html There are modern alternatives, but perhaps focusing on the above for now might be easier to grasp. Answer from FriendlyRussian666 on reddit.com
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I'm not sure exactly what the issue is, but I find it strange that pip would be installed in a temp folder. Rather it should be installed at the same path as your python binary. I would check that folder instead and remove this temp folder from the path. You could also try using "python -m pip" instead of just pip. This would ask python to run pip as a module and should work if python work as expected from the terminal. I have seen this version of the command as the recommended way of using pip as it ensures you are using the pip that is for this specific version of python. This solves some problems when having multiple python versions installed. I would also recommend that you look into virtually environments early in your python journey as it will be very helpful in the long run. I usually use "python -m venv" as this comes built in to python. Finally, if you mainly want to learn AI, I would look at kaggle ( https://www.kaggle.com/ ) instead. The have a hosted python notebook system that you can use to explore AI and ML concepts using data sets hosted by them. Then you can focus more on the AI part instead of the data collection. Although the data collection is an important part it might be nice to get started on the AI bit first so you know what might be good to collect, how to structure it and so on. More on reddit.com
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Hi, I'm a complete novice at python who wants to learn more about AIs, and what better way than to create a web scraping program? Sadly, I seem to have severe issues getting VSCode to even recognize pip.

  1. Python 3.12.4 installed correctly. Can run VSCode terminal programs.

  2. Windows terminal sees pip at C:\Users\...\AppData\Local\Temp\tmpbx4fwgtg, which was where pip was installed when I downloaded Python 3.12.4. Can't manually find or access AppData, but set C:\Users\...\AppData\Local\Temp\tmpbx4fwgtg in PATH for windows, system variables.

  3. VSCode terminal doesn't recognize pip.

  4. get.pip.py installed and location set in PATH for windows, system variables, with C:\Users\...\.vscode\extensions, because I can't find AppData.

  5. VSCode terminal doesn't recognize pip, and windows terminal sees pip at C:\Users\...\AppData\Local\Temp\tmpbx4fwgtg.

Sorry for the long-winded and convoluted question, but after five hours...and accidentally deleting half of my OS as I went on wild goose chase, I'm at my wits end. Is there any way to make pip work?

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