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

Question

I am trying to install Kedro but I am getting this error. I know most of the time this error arises because kedro is not in my PATH. I tried adding the file path to my PATH and still getting the same error. When I run:

pip show kedro

output:

Name: kedro Version: 0.15.5 Summary: Kedro helps you build production-ready data and analytics pipelines Home-page: https://github.com/quantumblacklabs/kedro Author: QuantumBlack Labs Author-email: None License: Apache Software License (Apache 2.0) Location: c:\users\vince\appdata\roaming\python\python36\site-packages Requires: pyarrow, anyconfig, PyYAML, requests, SQLAlchemy, tables, xlrd, cookiecutter, fsspec, pip-tools, toposort, s3fs, pandas, python-json-logger, xlsxwriter, click Required-by:

I get the file location, and that is what I was trying to add to my path. I am assuming I am using the wrong location, but I am not sure which file location to add to my PATH.

What I added to my path: c:\users\vince\appdata\roaming\python\python36\site-packages

Can you show us your current `$PATH` and the output of `pip show kedro`? — Zain Patel, Jan 28 '20 at 14:18
I added the output and the location I added to my PATH in the OP — vincenzo Scotto Di Uccio, Jan 28 '20 at 14:58
Can you look inside your `C:\Program Files\Python37\Scripts\` to see if there's anything about `kedro` in there? If so, try adding that to your `PATH`? — Zain Patel, Jan 28 '20 at 15:39
On Windows you need to add the location of `kedro.exe` to your PATH rather than the location of `kedro` package installation. As per @ZainPatel's comment, those can appear in `C:\Program Files\Python37\Scripts` — Dmitry Deryabin, Jan 28 '20 at 16:37
Or something like `C:\Users\Username\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python35\Scripts` depending on where this `Script` folder is located for the specific Python interpreter. To find out your interpreter executable location you can run from the terminal `where python` — Dmitry Deryabin, Jan 28 '20 at 16:52
I added c:\users\username\appdata\roaming\python\python36\scripts\kedro.exe, to no avail. @DmitryDeryabin — vincenzo Scotto Di Uccio, Jan 29 '20 at 07:38
You need to add `c:\users\username\appdata\roaming\python\python36\scripts` rather. Another quick workaround is to run Kedro as a module: `python -m kedro run`. — Dmitry Deryabin, Jan 29 '20 at 16:51

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 05 '20 at 12:38

To turn the comments into an answer:

With Python CLI tools on Windows, you need to make sure that your Python Scripts directory is in your PATH. The location of that directory depends on what version of Python you have installed, and you can look it up for your specific version. Common locations include (replace Python37 with your version):

C:\Program Files\Python37\Scripts
C:\Users\Username\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python37\Scripts

NB: It should be the entire directory that is added to your PATH, not the path to the kedroexecutable itself.

Alternatively, you can run kedro as a module by running python -m kedro.

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 28 '20 at 13:28

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Can you try adding the path outputted by the command which kedro instead? Did the package install successfully after you did pip install kedro?

answered Jan 28 '20 at 13:28

Lorena Balan

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I tried to run 'which kedro' and it returned a long statement that basically said it could not find it. If I run 'pip install kedro' it tells me that all requirements are already satisfied. – vincenzo Scotto Di Uccio Jan 28 '20 at 15:07
Try running `which pip`, and `which python` do the directories match up to the environment you are trying to use. I have seen similar issues when environments get half activated/deactivated. Like some others have said, its likely a path issue, but this may help figure out where the path went wrong. – Waylon Walker Feb 02 '20 at 15:32

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

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