zsh: no matches found: requests[security]

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00:00 Zsh: No Matches Found: Requests[Security]
00:53 Accepted Answer Score 634
01:17 Answer 2 Score 13
01:26 Thank you

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ACCEPTED ANSWER

Score 634

zsh uses square brackets for globbing / pattern matching.

That means that if you need to pass literal square brackets as an argument to a command, you either need to escape them or quote the argument like this:

pip install 'requests[security]'

If you want to disable globbing for the pip command permanently, you can do so by adding this to your ~/.zshrc:

alias pip='noglob pip'

ANSWER 2

Score 13

Use instead:

pip install requests\[security\]

Works flawlessly on MacOS with zsh.