PYTHON PIP Error File "", line 1

PYTHON PIP  Error

>>> pip install request

  File "<stdin>", line 1

    pip install request

              ^

SyntaxError: invalid syntax

First of all you need to ensure if pip is okay. to do it. type the command below. open windows command prompt, click start and typ CMD. 

python -m ensurepip --default-pip

if ok. this will return

python -m pip install SomePackage

so to get the requests package (you need this so that you can use python to deal with web APIs web-services)

python -m pip install requests