ImportError: No module named pip after trying to upgrade pip

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I am using a MacOS 10.15 and Python version 3.7.7

I wanted to upgrade pip so I ran pip install --upgrade pip, but it turns out my pip was gone (it shows ImportError: No module named pip when I want to use pip install ...)

I tried several methods like python3 -m ensurepip, but it returns

Looking in links: /var/folders/sc/f0txnv0j71l2mvss7psclh_h0000gn/T/tmpchwk90o3

Requirement already satisfied: setuptools in ./anaconda3/lib/python3.7/site-packages (49.6.0.post20200814)

Requirement already satisfied: pip in ./anaconda3/lib/python3.7/site-packages (20.2.2)

and pip install still does not work and returns the same error message.

I also tried easy_install pip and other methods but pip still does not work.

Can anyone help me with this?

Update: Using the method from @cshelly, it works on my computer!

pip python-3.x python
3 Answers

Try the following:

python3 -m pip --upgrade pip

The -m flag will run a library module as a script.

user_37058400

The pip used by python3 is called pip3. Since you're using python3, you want to do pip3 install --upgrade pip.

user_88905780

Since it says no module named pip, thus pip is not installed in your system So you may try

curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py -o get-pip.py

to download pip directly then you can use execute it using -

python3 get-pip.py

For details you may refer - https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/how-to-install-pip-in-macos/

PS: You may need to use sudo to make use of administrative privileges.

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