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Unable to download praw using pip

I'm currently working my way through this guide which details how to make a reddit bot. followed the first step and ran my code in Python IDLE but had an issue because I didn't have PRAW downloaded.

My question is how exactly do I download PRAW? I looked around and tried downloading it through a few methods but none of them seemed to work for me. Currently working my way through this method but I keep getting an error: Fatal error in launcher. Unable to create process using...

Solution

  • Try the following

    1. Download the zip from https://pypi.python.org/pypi/praw#downloads
    2. Unzip.
    3. python setup.py install