How to Install pipenv on Windows

Summary: in this tutorial, you’ll learn how to install the pipenv packaging tool on Windows and how to configure a project with a new virtual environment using the Python pipenv tool.

Prerequisites #

Before installing the pipenv tool, you need to have Python and pip installed on your computer.

First, open the Command Prompt or Windows Powershell and type the following command.

python -V

Note that the letter V in the -V is uppercase. If you see the Python version like the following:

Python 3.13.2Code language: CSS (css)

…then you already have Python installed on your computer. Otherwise, you need to install Python first.

Second, use the following command to check if you have the pip tool on your computer:

pip -V

It’ll return something like this:

pip 25.0.1 from C:\python\Lib\site-packages\pip (python 3.13)Code language: CSS (css)

Install pipenv on Windows #

First, use the following command to install pipenv tool:

pip install pipenv

Second, type the following command to check if the pipenv installed correctly:

pipenv -h

If it shows the following output, then you’ve successfully installed the pipenv tool successfully.

Usage: pipenv [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...
...Code language: CSS (css)

Creating a new project #

First, create a new project folder e.g., crawler:

mkdir crawler
cd crawler

Second, navigate to the crawler folder and install the requests package using the pipenv command:

pipenv install requests

You’ll see that pipenv created two new files called Pipfile and Pipfile.lock. On top of that, it installed a virtual environment.

If you look at the project folder, you won’t see the virtual environment folder.

To find the location of the virtual environment, you use the following command:

pipenv --venv

It’ll return something like this on Windows:

C:\Users\<username>\.virtualenvs\crawler-3xu8GCrVCode language: HTML, XML (xml)

Note that the <username> is the username that you use to log in to Windows.

Third, activate the new virtual environment using the following command:

pipenv shell

The prompt will change to something like:

(crawler-3xu8GCrV) D:\python_projects\crawler>

Third, create a new file called app.py in the project folder and add the following code to the file:

import requests

response = requests.get('https://www.python.org/')
print(response.status_code)Code language: JavaScript (javascript)

In this code, we imported the requests third-party module, use the get() function to make an HTTP request to the URL https://www.python.org/ and display the status code (200).

Fourth, run the app.py file from the terminal by using the python command:

python app.pyCode language: CSS (css)

It’ll show the following the returned HTTP status code:

200

The status code 200 means the HTTP request has succeeded.

Fifth, close the virtual environment using the exit command:

exitCode language: PHP (php)

Quiz #