'pip' installs to wrong directory, even though it's set correctly in PATH - Telegram

Haytorade
March 15, 2019
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I’m having trouble with my PATH and can’t seem to find an answer anywhere.

I’m using a virtualenv on my Mac, and when I call which pip, it confirms this – but when I pip install anything, it dumps it into my ‘usr/local’ path.

I have export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH added to my .bash_profile to ensure that user-installed binaries take precedence, but I have { "python.pythonPath": "/Virtualenvs/py3/bin/python3.7" } added in my VSCode settings.json to ensure the right path from there.

More specifically, calling which pip returns:

/Users/username/Virtualenvs/py3/bin/pip

But pip install telegramreturns:

Requirement already satisfied: telegram in /usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages (0.0.1)

Any ideas on why this might be happening?

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- Haytorade
- March 15, 2019 at 7:00 am
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I was able to solve my problem by adding:
```
{
    "python.pythonPath": "/Virtualenvs/py3/bin/python3.7",
    "python.linting.pylintEnabled": true,
    "python.linting.enabled": true,
    "[python]": {

    },
```
to: /Users/username/Library/Application Support/Code/User/settings.json as well as: /Users/username/Virtualenvs/test_env/build/.vscode/settings.json

It's not a perfect solution, as it will require me to change the settings.json file each time I switch environments.

If anyone has an answer that won't - I'd love to hear it.