install_python3_12_and_venv.adoc

Install Python-3.11 and pip on Windows

Table of Contents

• Install Python
• Install pip
• Installation and creation of virtual python environment
  • Install Virtual environment
• Install Poetry

Install Python

• Download embeddable package(64 bit) from https://www.python.org/downloads/windows/

• Extract the zip and place in prefered folder.

• Open Environment Window, add environment field PYTHON_HOME=<folder of python extraction including python folder>

• Update Path field in environment to include %PYTHON_HOME% and %PYTHON_HOME%\Scripts

Install pip

• Go to %PYTHON_HOME% folder and edit python<version>._pth file and uncomment import site

• Download get-pip.py

curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py -o get-pip.py

• Install pip

python get-pip.py

• Verify pip is installed

pip -V

Installation and creation of virtual python environment

Install Virtual environment

• Install Virtual env using pip (incase of linux its venv)

python -m pip install virtualenv

• Create new virtual environment in specific folder.

python -m virtualenv .env

Install Poetry

• Install packaging module

python -m pip install packaging

• Install requests module

python -m pip install requests

• Install rapidfuzz module

python -m pip install rapidfuzz

• Install scikit-build module

python -m pip install requests

• Install scikit-build module

python -m pip install scikit-build

• Install poetry module

python -m pip install poetry