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I created a virtual environment using PowerShell for a python program. Installed various modules needed for the program. The reason I install the virtual environment is because of the error of missing imports that occurred to me earlier. Throughout this work, I've used Visual Studio Code for writing the code and debugging it.

When I resumed my work on the program, I saw 2 modules showing missing imports i.e. "SpeechRecognition" and "wikipedia". In the terminal put the following code in the virtual environment:

pip install wikipedia

and this was the output:

Fatal error in launcher: Unable to create process using '"E:\\School Collage And Files\\visual studio\\QuantumMKI\\quan\\Scripts\\python.exe"  "E:\\SchoolCollageAndFiles\\visualstudio\\QuantumMKI\\quan\\Scripts\\pip.exe" install wikipedia': The system cannot find the file specified.

The same error occurred for SpeechRecognition

pip install SpeechRecognition

and received the same output:

Fatal error in launcher: Unable to create process using '"E:\School Collage And Files\visual studio\QuantumMKI\quan\Scripts\python.exe"  "E:\SchoolCollageAndFiles\visualstudio\QuantumMKI\quan\Scripts\pip.exe" install SpeechRecognition': The system cannot find the file specified.

Here is the whole output of the terminal for reference:

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PS E:\SchoolCollageAndFiles\visualstudio\QuantumMKI> & e:/SchoolCollageAndFiles/visualstudio/QuantumMKI/quan/Scripts/Activate.ps1
(quan) PS E:\SchoolCollageAndFiles\visualstudio\QuantumMKI> pip install wikipedia
Fatal error in launcher: Unable to create process using '"E:\School Collage And Files\visual studio\QuantumMKI\quan\Scripts\python.exe"  "E:\SchoolCollageAndFiles\visualstudio\QuantumMKI\quan\Scripts\pip.exe" install wikipedia': The system cannot find the file specified.

(quan) PS E:\SchoolCollageAndFiles\visualstudio\QuantumMKI> pip install SpeechRecognition
Fatal error in launcher: Unable to create process using '"E:\School Collage And Files\visual studio\QuantumMKI\quan\Scripts\python.exe"  "E:\SchoolCollageAndFiles\visualstudio\QuantumMKI\quan\Scripts\pip.exe" install SpeechRecognition': The system cannot find the file specified.

(quan) PS E:\SchoolCollageAndFiles\visualstudio\QuantumMKI>

My expectation was the installation of all these modules without exception.

NOTE: (quan) is the virtual environment of the program.



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