The accepted answer is outdated. So first, pip is preferred over easy_install, (Why use pip over easy_install?). Then follow these steps to install pip on Windows, it's quite easy.
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setuptools:curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/ez_setup.py | pythonInstall
pip:curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py | pythonOptionally, you can add the path to your environment so that you can use
pipanywhere. It's somewhere likeC:\Python33\Scripts.
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The accepted answer is outdated. So first, pip is preferred over easy_install, (Why use pip over easy_install?). Then follow these steps to install pip on Windows, it's quite easy.
Install
setuptools:curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/ez_setup.py | pythonInstall
pip:curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py | pythonOptionally, you can add the path to your environment so that you can use
pipanywhere. It's somewhere likeC:\Python33\Scripts.
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Newer versions of Python for Windows come with the pip package manager. (source)
pip is already installed if you're using Python 2 >=2.7.9 or Python 3 >=3.4
Use pip to install packages from the Python Package Index.
cd C:\Python\Scripts\
pip.exe install <package-name>
In your case run:
pip.exe install mechanize
Python Packaging
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Installing Packages — Python Packaging User Guide
On Windows you can find the user base binary directory by running py -m site --user-site and replacing site-packages with Scripts. For example, this could return C:\Users\Username\AppData\Roaming\Python36\site-packages so you would need to set your PATH to include C:\Users\Username\AppData...
Is there a GUI Python package manager?
I strongly recommend becoming less adverse to the command line. It opens up so many possibilities! GUI tools are great and there is nothing wrong with using them—even almost exclusively—but understanding what’s under the hood, or at the very least not be “adverse” to it, is important. Put another way, you don’t need to know how to fix a car to drive one, or even how the engine works. But being adverse to opening the hood to add windshield washer fluid will be quite limiting! More on reddit.com
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February 18, 2025Which package manager do you use?
Python 3.10 is very new and so not all libraries work with it yet. This isn’t a package manager difficulty, it’s a compatibility conflict between libraries and Python versions. This is why Conda is installing 3.9. Wait a bit and more libraries will support 3.10. I just use pip to install to venvs. Edit: Scikit-learn specifically is not 3.10 yet. More on reddit.com
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November 24, 2021What's the best package manager for python in your opinion?
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Strip them all for now, just for the purpose of understanding, and focus on these two: pip virtual environment Someone wrote some code, and the code does something cool, perhaps others might want to use it. If you want to use it, you use pip to download the code that the other person wrote. When you download code that someone wrote, and use it in a project, what happens when there is an update to the code? Your project might break because of the changes. For that, you create a virutal environment for your project, into which you download the code, so that each project has its own version of the dependency. All the others you mentioned are combinations, or alternatives of pip and venv. More on reddit.com
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ActiveState
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Python Package Installation on Windows - ActiveState
January 24, 2024 - The Pip Package Manager is the de facto standard for managing Python distributions, and is recommended for installing Python packages for Windows.Pip is installed automatically with Python 2 (>=2.7.9) and Python 3 (>=3.4) installations.
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February 23, 2026 - The Python install manager for Windows is our tool for installing and managing runtimes.
Reddit
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r/learnpython on Reddit: Is there a GUI Python package manager?
February 18, 2025 -
Are there any GUI-based package managers for Python that allow installing libraries and applications without using the command line?
I'm looking for something like a "visual pip" that would make it easy for command-line adverse users to install and manage Python packages.
Does anything like this exist?
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I strongly recommend becoming less adverse to the command line. It opens up so many possibilities! GUI tools are great and there is nothing wrong with using them—even almost exclusively—but understanding what’s under the hood, or at the very least not be “adverse” to it, is important. Put another way, you don’t need to know how to fix a car to drive one, or even how the engine works. But being adverse to opening the hood to add windshield washer fluid will be quite limiting!
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Developers will use whatever tools they have at their disposal, so I'm assuming you're talking about end users here. In which case my answer is; they shouldn't need to do that. When you're distributing your program to end users, the best thing you can do for them is to offer a painless way for them to use your program without needing all the technical know-how. On Windows that'd mean offering pre-built EXE-files or installers that take care of setting up everything the program needs to run. Or you can offer it as a web service, where appropriate. They shouldn't need to worry about installing dependencies except maybe if your project is a wrapper for another program, like FFMPEG, and needs that installed to work.
Jumping Rivers
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An Introduction to Python Package Managers
July 22, 2025 - Conda can manage not only Python packages from PyPI but also non-Python libraries and binary packages. Furthermore, conda excels at handling dependencies and managing virtual environments (which will be discussed in a later blog). Conda can be installed in two ways by either installing Anaconda or Miniconda. We will only consider installing Miniconda in this blog. ... Download the Miniconda installer for Windows from docs.conda.io/en/latest/miniconda.html.
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However, there are some tools and methods that can be considered best practices. Knowing these can help you pick the right tool for the right situation. pip is the de facto package manager in the Python world.
Computer Action Team
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August 30, 2023 - Installing Python Packages under Windows To install Python packages ("eggs") from the Python language's package manager "pip," follow our instructions below. This can be done without Administrator access in a per-user, per-project clean manner with virtualenv.
Python Packaging
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Tool recommendations — Python Packaging User Guide
Installing pip/setuptools/wheel with Linux Package Managers · Installing scientific packages · Multi-version installs · Package index mirrors and caches · Hosting your own simple repository · Packaging and distributing projects · Including files in source distributions with MANIFEST.in · Single-sourcing the package version · Supporting multiple Python versions · Dropping support for older Python versions · Packaging binary extensions · Supporting Windows using Appveyor ·
Reddit
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r/Python on Reddit: Which package manager do you use?
November 24, 2021 -
there are 3 popular package managers for python modules being used the most frequently: conda pip apt(for debian-based linux).
I initially installed anaconda which gave me conda but together with a lot of extra package bloat I may never use.
So naturally I tried miniconda. It turns out there are caveats to this too:
conda-forge is touted as a robust channel but when i tried installing all my most used packages from the conda-forge channel here is what I got:
python3.10 as of writingpandas1.3.4 (latest)scikit-learn(latest)jupyterlab(no problem)matplotlib(CANNOT INSTALL. dependency conflict with python version on conda-forge)requests(CANNOT INSTALL. dependency conflict with python version on conda-forge)
I tried conda package manager with the defaults channel:
all the packages install but
pythonfrom defaults channel is 3.9.7. Everything works with this but no python==3.10.
When I made a separate virtual environment and tried installing via pip package manager only:
everything worked.
python--version is 3.10. every package installed to the latest version EXCEPTscikit-learnwhich is not installing for some reason.
And then there's apt which manages all other non-python packages on my linux and has a few python packages on ubuntu's repositories. But apt does not install packages in virtual environment and may not contain as many packages as pip or conda.
it appears conda with defaults channel is the most robust of all. I don't want to use multiple package managers as it is a hassle when updating and may lead to dependency hell. I want to know which package managers are being used the most considering they are hassle-free and easy to update and keep track of.
So what package manager do you use?
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Python 3.10 is very new and so not all libraries work with it yet. This isn’t a package manager difficulty, it’s a compatibility conflict between libraries and Python versions. This is why Conda is installing 3.9. Wait a bit and more libraries will support 3.10. I just use pip to install to venvs. Edit: Scikit-learn specifically is not 3.10 yet.
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For most app development, Pip is the right answer. Apt only really makes sense if you're either developing system software, or are in a position where you're targetting a fleet of machines all running the same OS, need (and have paid for) concrete guarantees about package support (for example if you need to continue to use an old version package or interpreter beyond upstream's EOL), and are willing to accept the compromises of using the limited (and sometimes dated) set of packages in the official repos (and even then, dh-virtualenv can be a viable alternative). I've mostly seen Conda used in situations where you're not delivering a finished app, so much as an environment for exploring data. Although TBH, I've never found myself with problems that Conda seemed like it would solve, so others might have a more favourable view of Conda.
Inedo
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Python Package Managers Explained
May 1, 2025 - Pipenv is a package management tool that “aims to bring the best of all packaging worlds” to Python. Pipenv is similar in spirit to Node.js’s npm and Ruby’s bundler. It’s popular among the Python community because it merges virtual environments and package management into a single tool.
The New Stack
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How To Choose the Best Python Package Management Tool - The New Stack
June 16, 2025 - Pip comes pre-installed with modern Python distributions, eliminating the need for additional setup steps. Basic operations follow intuitive command patterns: pip install package-name for installation, pip uninstall package-name for removal, and pip list for viewing installed packages. The tool supports requirements files through the requirements.txt format, enabling reproducible installations across different environments. However, this approach requires manual management of dependency versions and virtual environments.
Python
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Python Release Python install manager 26.1 | Python.org
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DEV Community
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Python Package Manager Comparison 📦 - DEV Community
November 15, 2023 - My first modern Python package manager. I would say the documentation is still the best available, although it might be too "designed" for some. It does a lot -- maybe too much? -- but, in my opinion, it pioneered a lot of features that are now expected in other Python package managers.
Microsoft Store
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February 23, 2026 - The Python install manager helps you to install, manage, and launch Python on Windows. After install, the "py" command is your tool of choice - try "py help" to see what it can do!
GitHub
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KDnuggets
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Top 7 Python Package Managers - KDnuggets
October 27, 2025 - Pixi is a cutting-edge package manager built in Rust by the Conda community to unify environment management across different programming languages. It is fully reproducible, cross-platform, and extremely fast, making it ideal for teams that manage mixed technology stacks. While Pixi is impressive, it hasn't gained as much popularity as uv. Similar to uv, Pixi offers quick and powerful management of Python dependencies, but it also provides cross-language support.
Python
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To programmatically install the ... --disable-interactivity # Optionally run the configuration checker and accept all changes $> py install --configure -y...