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I am facing issues while installing request module (python 2.7) on windows.

Tried the below steps as per documentation:

pip install requests

error

'pip' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

easy_install requests

error

'easy_install' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

setup.py

error

C:\Location\Python\lib\distutils\dist.py:267: UserWarning: Unknown distribution option: 'zip_safe' warnings.warn(msg)
C:\Location\Python\lib\distutils\dist.py:267: UserWarning: Unknown distribution option: 'include_package_data' warnings.warn(msg)
C:\Location\Python\lib\distutils\dist.py:267: UserWarning: Unknown distribution option: 'install_requires' warnings.warn(msg)
usage: setup.py [global_opts] cmd1 [cmd1_opts] [cmd2 [cmd2_opts] ...]
   or: setup.py --help [cmd1 cmd2 ...]
   or: setup.py --help-commands
   or: setup.py cmd --help
error: no commands supplied
Can anyone please advise how to install the module on windows , without downloading any new stuff.
                pip and easy_install both require downloads. have you tried looking at setup.py and looking at the commands it takes?
– TehTris
                Aug 20, 2013 at 22:11
                You have to download something. Even if you had pip installed, and it did everything for you… it would obviously have to download requests to do that. So… what's the actual requirement you're asking for?
– abarnert
                Aug 20, 2013 at 22:13
                Anyway, you almost certainly want to either (a) get pip set up and just use that from now on, or (b) use Christoph Gohlke's binary packages and hope you never need a package he hasn't built (or a newer version of one he has). I would strongly recommend (a)—you're a programmer, you should know how to use your machine—but (b) works too.
– abarnert
                Aug 20, 2013 at 22:14
                @abarnert mate all I am asking for is can I install requests, without downloading pip or easy_install
– misguided
                Aug 20, 2013 at 22:15
If you want to install requests directly you can use the "-m" (module) option available to python. 
python.exe -m pip install requests
You can do this directly in PowerShell, though you may need to use the full python path (eg. C:\Python27\python.exe) instead of just python.exe.
As mentioned in the comments, if you have added Python to your path you can simply do:
python -m pip install requests
                Thanks! Since I have python added to my path, I just needed to do: python -m pip install requests
– Rani Kheir
                Apr 21, 2016 at 9:15
Get virtualenv set up. Each virtual environment you create will automatically have pip.
Get pip set up globally.
Learn how to install Python packages manually—in most cases it's as simple as download, unzip, python setup.py install, but not always.
Use Christoph Gohlke's binary installers.
                Python 2.7.9+ and Python 3.4+ ship with PIP, so it very much depends exactly which version of Python 2.7 you were using.
– Peter Schofield
                Jul 6, 2017 at 13:39
        
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