Packages not installing in Idle shell

Question

I am using python Idle 3.10.0 on a Mac. I am trying to install the Arcade package, but, the Idle shell keep saying:

pip install arcade
SyntaxError: invalid syntax. Perhaps you forgot a comma?

with the I of invalid highlighted in red. what am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

Pip doesn't run inside idle, it runs in terminal. This is because idle runs python code, but pip is a terminal command. In terminal run pip install arcade. If it doesn't work also try py -m pip install arcade or if that doesn't work python3 -m pip install arcade

After running this in the terminal it should work in idle with import arcade