How do I "Import" Libraries using Python4Delphi?

[JohnLM 23]

Specs: Delphi XE7, VCL, Win7 64Bit - current version of Python v2.7.9rc1 as of today 2/1/2025 Friday -- edit: will update it to latest for win7, to v3.8.10

 

As part of my learning of Python and using Python4Delphi as the learning real-time GUI tool, I came across a youtube tutorial video where the person was calling the following Import libraries: 

import pandas as pd
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import networkx as nx

In other learning python projects I have imported some libraries successfully.   The ones above are not avail on my laptop.  So I am guessing that I have to download them. 

 

1. Where can I download them from?

2. and where (hdd folder) do I download them to on my laptop?

 

Please note: that I am not using any official Python IDE GUI app.  I am using Python4Delphi and building a small IDE for it and am using that as the IDE GUI app to run python code and/or test and run python lessons with. 

 

Edited 5 hours ago by JohnLM
added my system/work specs

[limelect 50]

Use pip on command line for example

pip install pandas

[JohnLM 23]

pip is not on my machine.  I searched around for it.  Also, after some time searching some more, I found out how to tell which version of Python I have installed, which is currently at version 2.7.9rc1 and I must have installed it back in 2014 since the date of the folder "Python27" shows that year it was created.   To the best of my memory, I got interested in it when I heard about and watched a youtube video on Python4Delphi by Jim Mckeeth and I must have installed to try it out back then and then forgot about it until around now.  But the version I have seems to work fine, and I've tried many lessons successfully. Just basic stuff.  But now I want to get into it more deeper. 

 

Oh, and I searched around for "pandas" or a folder at least, and I did not find any.  It looks like I have a bit of research to do. 
 

Edited 15 hours ago by JohnLM
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[pyscripter 705]

Just go to www.python.org, download the most recent version and install it.  It includes pip.

[JohnLM 23]

Thanks.  Okay, I found the last version of Python being made for Windows 7 is v3.8.10 - After that version, only Windows 10 and onward - 😞

 

link --> https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3810/

download link 64b --> https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.8.10/python-3.8.10-amd64.exe

download link 32b --> https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.8.10/python-3.8.10.exe 

[JohnLM 23]

Apparently, I did have v3.8.10 installed, but the installation must have missed some things I did not tick at the time of initial installation.

 

I proceeded to uninstall it and reinstall it and making sure I tic the part about adding it the search path. 

 

Afterwards, the installation went successfully and I type in PIP and the process worked.   

 

Below is a run-through of the process for the command line: PIP install pandas

 

C:\Users\dell>pip install pandas
Collecting pandas
  Downloading pandas-2.0.3-cp38-cp38-win_amd64.whl (10.8 MB)
     |████████████████████████████████| 10.8 MB 1.3 MB/s
Collecting python-dateutil>=2.8.2
  Downloading python_dateutil-2.9.0.post0-py2.py3-none-any.whl (229 kB)
     |████████████████████████████████| 229 kB 1.7 MB/s
Collecting numpy>=1.20.3
  Downloading numpy-1.24.4-cp38-cp38-win_amd64.whl (14.9 MB)
     |████████████████████████████████| 14.9 MB 1.6 MB/s
Collecting pytz>=2020.1
  Downloading pytz-2025.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl (507 kB)
     |████████████████████████████████| 507 kB 1.3 MB/s
Collecting tzdata>=2022.1
  Downloading tzdata-2025.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl (346 kB)
     |████████████████████████████████| 346 kB 1.3 MB/s
Collecting six>=1.5
  Downloading six-1.17.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl (11 kB)
Installing collected packages: six, tzdata, pytz, python-dateutil, numpy, pandas

Successfully installed numpy-1.24.4 pandas-2.0.3 python-dateutil-2.9.0.post0 pyt
z-2025.1 six-1.17.0 tzdata-2025.1
WARNING: You are using pip version 21.1.1; however, version 25.0 is available.
You should consider upgrading via the 'c:\users\dell\appdata\local\programs\pyth
on\python38\python.exe -m pip install --upgrade pip' command.

C:\Users\dell>

I am not sure that it installed in the correct place.  I mean, I did not give it a folder/path name.  I just opened a comand line prompt via CMD and the default folder showed, thus, c:\users\dell

 

I am not a Python guru.  Can anybody confirm that I performed this operation correctly?  

 

Edited 4 hours ago by JohnLM
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