Consuming HTTP Services in Python Transcripts
Chapter: Initial HTTP GET requests with the requests package
Lecture: Concept: installing requests
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So let's review installing requests, we had already created a virtual environment,
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but don't forget to activate it, so . (dot, space) the path activate on Windows, you don't have to do the dot and this is just activate.batch.
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So either way, our prompt will change and then we'll have access to the packaging tools for that environment.
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Then of course, we are going to do pip install requests, that is going to download and install it
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and then just to make sure you can make a quick pip list to see what you've got, and here we can see that requests 2.13.0
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that is the latest at the time of this recording was successfully installed and ready to roll.