Long story short, I did a pip upgrade and a command that told it to install a bunch of dependencies in one file, and now when i try to do anything with pip, it is throwing me
For example, running
py -m pip -V
throws
Error while finding module specification for 'pip' (AttributeError: module '__main__' has no attribute '__file__')
Along with anything else that involves my trying to call my python 3.8 pip.
Running
py -m ensurepip
Tells me that pip is infact installed.
Requirement already satisfied: setuptools in c:\program files (x86)\python38-32\lib\site-packages (60.3.0)
Requirement already satisfied: pip in c:\program files (x86)\python38-32\lib\site-packages (21.3.1)
Which covers the pip not installed, and module not installed case that similar questions appear to be solved by. So, does anyone have any idea what is going on and how to get pip to start working again as a module?