SyntaxError in setup.py with pip to install module

Question

So my teacher in python showed the turtle module, so I want to try it myself, but when I try to install the turtle module on my PC I have an error : I'm using "pip" to install modules, so when I do "pip install turtle" on a console (not python console) I have an error :

Collecting turtle
using cached turtle-0.0.2.tar.gz
Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
File "C:\Users\Daxxas\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-727hpv0w\turtle\setup.py", line40
except ValueError, ve:
                 ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

and there is this in red :

Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 C:\Users\Daxxas\AppData\Local\temp\pip-build-727hpv0w\turtle\

And I don't know what to do. There isn't pip's folder in "Temp".

So how can I fix this to be able to install the turtle module ?

ps : Is it possible to copy/paste something in a console ?

Answer 1

Turtle is already included in the Python standard library; you don't need to install anything.

The library you were installing is a completely different thing (an HTTP proxy, apparently) which looks like it's not compatible with any recent Python version.

Answer 2

This might be happening because you are trying to install a library that is already included in the standard library.

For example, I was trying to install hashlib using pip and was getting a similar error

python -m pip install hashlib
Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
....
File "C:\Users\bla\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-l8pg66yd\hashlib\hashlib.py", line 80
        raise ValueError, "unsupported hash type"
                        ^
    SyntaxError: invalid syntax

    ----------------------------------------
Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in C:\Users\bla\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-l8pg66yd\hashlib\

If you are not able to resolve the library, you might have not correctly setup the python interpreter or SDK in your IDE. Check if that is the case.