pip is not recognized

[Kurpaph]

Bug report

Bug description:

Ever since I downloaded the Python install manager on Windows and updated Python by it, I have problems with pip. I always get

pip: The term 'pip' is not recognized as a name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or executable program.
Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.

Everywhere it says to add pip to path, but I have and nothing has changed. Also, when I managed to delete the pip folders from Lib/site-packages and run python -m ensurepip, I got the Scripts folder but pip is still not recognized and I don't have the libraries I had before.
Now at the python folder I have two pythoncore-3.14-64 folders, but one is with _ before and it has all the libraries I downloaded.
Please help me get pip to work again with all my libraries on this version and on every other upcoming version.

cpython: 3.14.1 (just updated)
OS: Windows 11, 25H2 x64

CPython versions tested on:

3.14

Operating systems tested on:

Windows

[johnslavik]

CC @ZeroIntensity (mentorship) topic-installation

[Kurpaph]

After a long conversation with ChatGPT, it turns out that I used pip instead of pip3 for using pip. I don't know if this is intended, but it solved the usage of pip. just to clarify, I didn't have a Script folder before deleting pip from site-packages and reinstalling it using python -m ensurepip. Now I'm still left with reinstalling all of my libraries, but I'm not sure that it fits this thread.

[zooba]

This is currently being tracked as python/pymanager#121 on the PyManager repo, and is in the process of being fixed (but it's a big feature, to implement the entrypoints spec and generate the right set of aliases, so it'll ship later next year).

In the meantime, the recommended approach is to use py -m venv ... to create a virtual environment, and then activate that with <env>\Scripts\Activate. That will make the commands available in that session, which is much safer than prioritising them for all apps all the time.

You can also use py -m pip if you really want to use pip in the base install. But that should usually be avoided.