Python3 running on Mac but no Pip3?

I need to get pip3 running in my Mac terminal for a project. I have python3 installed, and I can run it, but when I try to run pip3 freeze, it says my command is not found.

pip3

python3

pip3 freeze

I thought it would be automatically installed when I installed Python3. I tried to sudo install it, but it still didn't do anything. What can I do?

pip

which pip

make install

3 Answers
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Assuming you are using Python 3.4 or later in which pip is included by default, try the following command:

pip

python3 -m pip freeze


When you use the -m command-line flag, python will search sys.path for the named module and execute its contents as the __main__ module. (more here)

-m

sys.path

__main__

Besides brew install pip3, in case brew is not installed on your Mac, you can install pip3 via get_pip.py which can be found here. Assuming that python3 is already installed, cd to the directory where you saved get_pip.py and run the file with python3 get_pip.py. This should get pip3 installed on your machine.

brew install pip3

brew

pip3

get_pip.py

python3

cd

get_pip.py

python3 get_pip.py

pip3

You could try brew install pip3. Or check where pip is installed, that might point to Python 3's version.

brew install pip3

pip

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