I have a question about the command python -m pip install …
Reading the documentation, it shows that the -m flag/option is used to identify a python module, the moudle is resolved by searching in the sys.path entries. In the above command, are we essentially asking the interpreter to search for pip in the sys.path? I located pip and it seems to be an executable and not a module, so does the -m flag also work for executables? Provided their locations are listed in the system path entries?
i searched for the pip file and found that its an executable
>Solution :
There are both. The is a pip module, somewhere like .../site-packages/pip, and the top-level executable script. The -m does run a module as a main script, but it can also run a package as main script if it has a special file name __main__.py in it. The pip package has this. So the package can be run as if it were the main script. Python will run what is in that __main__.py file.
This is a good way to target a specific pip for a specific version of Python, if you have more than one version of Python installed on your system.