Getting error while trying "pip install python-docx" in pycharm terminal

Question

New to python and just trying pip install python-docx and getting this message:

Command "C:\Users\samue\PycharmProjects\testings\venv\Scripts\python.exe -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file __='C:\Users\samue\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-_4bceyq4\lxml\setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open )(file);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, file, 'exec'))" install --record C:\Users\samue\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-record-pg5bpdaa\install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --com error: command 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Professional\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.26.28801\bin\Hos tX86\x86\cl.exe' failed with exit status 2

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Command "C:\Users\samue\PycharmProjects\testings\venv\Scripts\python.exe -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;file='C:\Users
\samue\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-_4bceyq4\lxml\setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(file);code=f.read().re place('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, file, 'exec'))" install --record C:\Users\samue\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-reco rd-pg5bpdaa\install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile --install-headers C:\Users\samue\PycharmProjects\te stings\venv\include\site\python3.8\lxml" failed with error code 1 in C:\Users\samue\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-_4bceyq4\lxml \

Answer 1

When you install with pip you use the command pip and not python.

To see whether pip is correctly installed type:

pip help

See the following page for how to install and configure pip on Windows:

https://phoenixnap.com/kb/install-pip-windows

Your error output shows a problem with lxml. Looking into it I have found the page pip install lxml error which suggests the following solution:

sudo apt-get install --reinstall python-dev libpython2.7-dev.