pip installs in a different python version and directory than the default 3.11

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Hi All,

Quick question - not related explicitly to python code - more related to installing packages.

When I try to install packages with pip install - by default it gets installed to Python 3.10 site-packages location as below, notice the python310 directory.

PS C:\Users\abhik\Nextcloud\Python\Desktop> pip install lxml      
Requirement already satisfied: lxml in c:\users\abhik\appdata\local\programs\python\python310\lib\site-packages (4.9.2)

However my default python version is python 311 and the environment variables have 3.11 paths first in order.

PS C:\Users\abhik\Nextcloud\Python\Desktop> py -V 
Python 3.11.4

So first question is - why is that happening and how do I change that behavior? I want pip to install packages to 311 directory by default without having to specify the target every time. I thought the PATH variable being defined and set int he right order should achieve that.

Second question is that if I do force the package to be installed in 3.11 by using py -m pip install it does work but even after that when I execute the code with 3.11 as the interpreter it produces an error saying the package is not installed. Code works as intended on 3.10.

PS C:\Users\abhik\Nextcloud\Python\Desktop> py -m pip install lxml     
Requirement already satisfied: lxml in c:\users\abhik\appdata\local\programs\python\python311\lib\site-packages (4.9.2)

I am using VS Code with Jupyter extensions, here is a sample of the error (not full code).


I checked the 3.11 site-packages directory to make sure it is installed and it is. Not sure why the code still won't run on 3.11

All help appreciated.
Thanks in advance.