Cant Install pipx or Brownie for Python

Question

I am very new with coding and was following along with these youtube videos and quickly realized something wasn't right, so I did some trouble shooting and couldn't figure it out.

When I tried to download pipx on VS Code I get this error

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Python3 : The term 'Python3' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, 
function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the 
name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.

I changed my environment variables, changed app execution aliases, and still nothing

I figured I'd check to see if python was working through VS Code and I get the same error

I tried downloading python through Microsoft store to see if that would help but nope.

Not sure what to do

https://stackoverflow.com/a/69604088/12368419 – cizario Oct 29 '21 at 18:59 — cizario, Oct 29 '21 at 18:59
Can you please post your code and not a screenshot? – Patrick Collins Nov 02 '21 at 17:36 — Patrick Collins, Nov 02 '21 at 17:36

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited Nov 07 '21 at 20:02

I was having the same issue for a while even though I added the following directory to the environment variable and system variable. C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python310\site-packages\pipx

What worked for me was adding the following directory to the environment variable and system variable. (c:\users\username.local\bin)

The directory (c:\users\username.local\bin) will be used to create the virtual environments.

I also found this when typing (python -m pipx ensurepath) which returned:

C:\Users\username\.local\bin has been been added to PATH, but you need to open a new terminal or re-login for this PATH change
    to take effect.
C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python310\Scripts has been been added to PATH, but you need to open a new terminal or
    re-login for this PATH change to take effect.

The (C:\Users\username.local\bin) path was the only thing I did not manually enter into my environment variable and system variable, so thought I should give that a try and it worked.

Cant Install pipx or Brownie for Python

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