How to use pip with Python 3.x alongside Python 2.x

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00:00 How To Use Pip With Python 3.X Alongside Python 2.X
00:23 Accepted Answer Score 206
00:52 Answer 2 Score 15
01:10 Answer 3 Score 60
01:22 Answer 4 Score 56
01:36 Thank you

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ACCEPTED ANSWER

Score 206

The approach you should take is to install pip for Python 3.2.

You do this in the following way:

$ curl -O https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py
$ sudo python3.2 get-pip.py

Then, you can install things for Python 3.2 with pip-3.2, and install things for Python 2-7 with pip-2.7. The pip command will end up pointing to one of these, but I'm not sure which, so you will have to check.

ANSWER 2

Score 60

What you can also do is to use apt-get:

apt-get install python3-pip

In my experience this works pretty fluent too, plus you get all the benefits from apt-get.

ANSWER 3

Score 56

First, install Python 3 pip using:

sudo apt-get install python3-pip

Then, to use Python 3 pip use:

pip3 install <module-name>

For Python 2 pip use:

pip install <module-name>

ANSWER 4

Score 15

If you don't want to have to specify the version every time you use pip:

Install pip:

$ curl https://raw.github.com/pypa/pip/master/contrib/get-pip.py | python3

and export the path:

$ export PATH=/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/<version number>/bin:$PATH