["python","python-2.7","beautifulsoup","pip"]
Install Beautiful Soup using pip

I am trying to install Beautiful Soup using pip in Python 2.7. I keep getting an error message and can't understand why. I followed the instructions to install pip, which was installed to the following directory: c:\Python27\Scripts\pip.exe. Then I tried adding it to the path, and running the pip install package command. I tried it two different ways: import sys sys.path.append('C:\\Python27\\Scripts\\pip.exe') pip install beautifulsoup4 import sys sys.path.append('C:\\Python27\\Scripts') pip install beautifulsoup4 Both give me this error message: >>> pip install beautifulsoup4 SyntaxError: invalid syntax The shell is highlighting the word "install" and saying that it's invalid syntax. What's going on?
pip is a command line tool, not Python syntax. In other words, run the command in your console, not in the Python interpreter: pip install beautifulsoup4 You may have to use the full path: C:\Python27\Scripts\pip install beautifulsoup4 or even C:\Python27\Scripts\pip.exe install beautifulsoup4 Windows will then execute the pip program and that will use Python to install the package. Another option is to use the Python -m command-line switch to run the pip module, which then operates exactly like the pip command: python -m pip install beautifulsoup4 or python.exe -m pip install beautifulsoup4