Google EarthEngine: No command named earthengine

Question

I am trying to install Google EarthEngine for Python. I am following the instructions listed out in this tutorial: https://www.earthdatascience.org/tutorials/intro-google-earth-engine-python-api/.

When I run Python shell, and execute import ee, it imports Google EarthEngine without error. However, in order to use Google EarthEngine, I need to input my authentication credentials (ee.Initialize() spits out an error saying I need to do so through the command earthengine authenticate). However, when I run earthengine authenticate, I get the following error:

'earthengine' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

This seems strange, considering that earthengine is installed automatically when the Python API is installed (https://developers.google.com/earth-engine/command_line).

What I ran: py -c "import ee; ee.Initialize()"

Complete Error Message:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\windows\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38-32\lib\site-packages\ee\data.py", line 230, in get_persistent_credentials
    tokens = json.load(open(oauth.get_credentials_path()))
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'C:\\Users\\windows/.config/earthengine/credentials'

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
  File "C:\Users\windows\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38-32\lib\site-packages\ee\__init__.py", line 114, in Initialize
    credentials = data.get_persistent_credentials()
  File "C:\Users\windows\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38-32\lib\site-packages\ee\data.py", line 240, in get_persistent_credentials
    raise ee_exception.EEException(
ee.ee_exception.EEException: Please authorize access to your Earth Engine account by running

earthengine authenticate

in your command line, and then retry.