i’ve had pip on my windows 11 system for a while, but after using it today it suddenly stopped working. it is installed but is not recognized by other programs and can’t be used by command prompt.
C:\Users\nymhole>setx PATH "%PATH%;C:\Python34\Scripts"
WARNING: The data being saved is truncated to 1024 characters.
SUCCESS: Specified value was saved.
C:\Users\nymhole>python -m pip install pip
Requirement already satisfied: pip in c:\users\nymhole\appdata\local\programs\python\python312\lib\site-packages (24.2)
C:\Users\nymhole>pip help install
'pip' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
i am disgustingly inexperienced so any help would be great, thanks.
C:\Users\nymhole>pip help install
'pip' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
C:\Users\nymhole>setx PATH "%PATH%;C:\users\nymhole\appdata\local\programs\python\python312\lib\"
WARNING: The data being saved is truncated to 1024 characters.
SUCCESS: Specified value was saved.
C:\Users\nymhole>pip
'pip' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
Well, the warning being output by the modifications to path seem quite relevant. Did you check that the path to python scripts you added is actually fully there inside of %PATH%?
It looks like your PATH is too long. Windows has some complicated limitations on how long your PATH can be. Evidently your PATH is longer than the 1024 character max that setx can handle. There are some other ways you can manipulate your PATH that have longer limits, but not all software will work right with a long PATH.
Probably the best route forward would be to try manually trimming down the length of your PATH.
Window’s PATH limitations is part of why it’s not recommended to add multiple Python installations to your PATH and to instead use the py launcher.
Here’s a few related resources that may be of some help:
using echo %PATH%, i got C:\Users\nymhole\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python312\Scripts\;C:\Users\nymhole\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python312\;C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v12.6\bin;C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v12.6\libnvvp;C:\Program Files\Smart Projects\IsoBuster;C:\Program Files\Oculus\Support\oculus-runtime;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\WINDOWS\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\WINDOWS\System32\OpenSSH\;C:\Program Files\dotnet\;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\WINDOWS\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\WINDOWS\System32\OpenSSH\;C:\Program Files\TortoiseGit\bin;C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\bin;C:\Program Files\NVIDIA Corporation\Nsight Compute 2024.3.0\;C:\Program Files (x86)\NVIDIA Corporation\PhysX\Common;C:\Program Files\Git\cmd;C:\Users\nymhole\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps;;C:\Users\nymhole\AppData\Local\Programs\Microsoft VS Code\bin;C:\Users\nymhole\.dotnet\tools;C:\Users\nymhole\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WinGet\Packages\Gyan.FFmpeg_Microsoft.Winget.Source_8wekyb3d8bbwe\ffmpeg-7.0.2-full_build\bin;, i think C:\Users\nymhole\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python312\Scripts\;C:\Users\nymhole\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python312\ is the actual path for pip
i see. do you think that the path for pip has been trunicated out? using echo %PATH% i see that C:\Users\nymhole\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python312\Scripts\;C:\Users\nymhole\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python312\; are the first 2 results. is one of these the path for pip? if not, what would that look like? so i can add it once i’ve gotten past the max character limit.
I’m not sure which directory a pip.exe shim would usually be placed in on Windows. Usually I’d recommend running pip through the py launcher as py -m pip instead of using a separate pip on your PATH. That way you can circumvent most PATH shenanigans.
Uninstalling pip-24.2:
Would remove:
c:\users\nymhole\appdata\local\programs\python\python312\lib\site-packages\pip-24.2.dist-info\*
c:\users\nymhole\appdata\local\programs\python\python312\lib\site-packages\pip\*
c:\users\nymhole\appdata\local\programs\python\python312\scripts\pip3.12.exe
c:\users\nymhole\appdata\local\programs\python\python312\scripts\pip3.exe
what im going to do right now is try to reinstall it, but i am putting this here for your future reference in troubleshooting. these are the default install locations on my device.
that makes sense, i did try adding paths multiple times to try to troubleshoot it. how would i remove these duplicate paths, and which ones should i remove?
C:\Users\nymhole>setx PATH "%PATH%;C:\Users\nymhole\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python312\Lib\site-packages\pip"
WARNING: The data being saved is truncated to 1024 characters.
SUCCESS: Specified value was saved.
C:\Users\nymhole>pip
'pip' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
C:\Users\nymhole>path
PATH=C:\Users\nymhole\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python312\Scripts\;C:\Users\nymhole\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python312\;C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v12.6\bin;C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v12.6\libnvvp;C:\Program Files\Smart Projects\IsoBuster;C:\Program Files\Oculus\Support\oculus-runtime;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\WINDOWS\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\WINDOWS\System32\OpenSSH\;C:\Program Files\dotnet\;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\WINDOWS\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\WINDOWS\System32\OpenSSH\;C:\Program Files\TortoiseGit\bin;C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\bin;C:\Program Files\NVIDIA Corporation\Nsight Compute 2024.3.0\;C:\Program Files (x86)\NVIDIA Corporation\PhysX\Common;C:\Program Files\Git\cmd;C:\Users\nymhole\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps;;C:\Users\nymhole\AppData\Local\Programs\Microsoft VS Code\bin;C:\Users\nymhole\.dotnet\tools;C:\Users\nymhole\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WinGet\Packages\Gyan.FFmpeg_Microsoft.Winget.Source_8wekyb3d8bbwe\ffmpeg-7.0.2-full_build\bin;
ive just now realized i am trying to add things to the front of the path that already exists, and my command is to set the path as (the path itself)+the new path i am adding.
i can also see that “path” has in fact been trunicated to 1024 characters “;c:\Progra” i added the new path pip myself, and there was a second temp, labled as tmp, under the same temp folder. just now realizing that could have been for a specific program that bade that new variable and used that instead of temp but it might make the variable again, otherwise it will just break i guess.
