How Do You Install The Decorator Package From The Python Package Index In Windows?

I went into the python command line and typed $ easy_install decorator like how it says on the website https://pypi.python.org/pypi/decorator

Solution 1:

easy_install is a shell command line tool. Exit the python prompt and just type:

easy_install decorator

(the $ is typically found in documentation to represent the shell's prompt).

If that doesn't work, you'll probably need to run it as root: sudo easy_install decorator.

Solution 2:

It sounds like you're on Windows, so I will provide you with an extremely simple Windows-friendly way to install the Python package.

1. Obtain get-pip.py from pip-installer.org
2. Execute get-pip.py using whichever version of Python you have installed
3. Use the new pip.exe tool obtained in step 2 to install the decorator package

If you have Python 2.7 installed in C:\Python27, steps 2 and 3 will look like this:

1. C:\Python27\python.exe get-pip.py
2. C:\Python27\Scripts\pip.exe install decorator

I don't have a Windows machine running in front of me right now; so, let me know if my memory has failed me and the example commands I listed above do not work for you. Like mgilson pointed out in his answer, you need to execute these commands from a command prompt (run cmd.exe from the Start Menu).

For future reference, adding your Python installation path and its Scripts subdirectory to your system's PATH environment variable make operations like this a lot less cumbersome. You can do this using setx (e.g. setx PATH "C:\Python27;C:\Python27\Scripts;%PATH%").