Why am I getting ImportError No module named pip right after installing pip

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I have installed pip and ez setup  I also checked the system path and I can see the module in the folder structure  Still when i try to run pip command  I get an Import error saying no module named pip  I am running 32bit python on a windows7 machine

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This issue occurs with me while I was trying to upgrade pip version. It was resolved with the following commands:

python -m ensurepip

The above command restores the pip and below mentioned upgrades it.

python -m pip install --upgrade pip

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I was facing same issue and resolved using following steps  1  Go  to your paython package and rename  python37  pth  to python37  pth save  2    curl https   bootstrap pypa io get-pip py -o get-pip py  3  then run  python get-pip py  4  pip install django  Hope this help

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After running get pip py with python embed you have to modify your pythonXX  pth file  Add Lib site-packages  to get something like this    pythonXX zip   Lib site-packages   Uncomment to run site main   automatically  import site   If you don t you will get this error      ModuleNotFoundError  No module named  pip    or     python-3 8 2-embed-amd64 python exe  No module named pip     pip Traceback  most recent call last     File  runpy py   line 193  in  run module as main   File  runpy py   line 86  in  run code   File  python-3 8 2-embed-amd64 Scripts pip exe   main   py   line 4  in  lt module gt  ModuleNotFoundError  No module named  pip     python -m pip python-3 8 2-embed-amd64 python exe  No module named pip

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I v solved this error by setting the correct path variables      C  Users name AppData Local Programs Python Python37 Scripts     C  Users name AppData Local Programs Python Python37 Lib site-packages

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If you wrote pip install --upgrade pip  and you got Installing collected packages  pip   Attempting uninstall  pip     Found existing installation  pip 20 2 1     Uninstalling pip-20 2 1  ERROR  Could not install packages due to an EnvironmentError     then you have uninstalled pip instead install pip  This could be the reason of your problem  The Gorodeckij Dimitrij s answer works for me  python -m ensurepip

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What solved the issue on my case was go to   cd C  Program Files Python37 Scripts   And run below command   easy install exe pip

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I ve solved this error downloading the executable file for python 3 7  I ve had downloaded the embeddeable version and got that error  Now it works   D

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Running these 2 commands helped me  curl https   bootstrap pypa io get-pip py -o get-pip py python get-pip py

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The method I m going to tell might not be the correct way to do it  But this method solved my issue  I tried every solution on youtube and StackOverflow methods   If you have two python versions installed  Delete one  I have the python 3 8 1 and 3 9 0 versions installed  I deleted version 3 9 0 from the C directory   Now go to the control panel  gt  System and security  gt  System  gt  Advanced system settings     Click on  environment variables    Select the path and click on  edit  Now  add the path of the python and also the path of pip module  In my case it was c  python38 and c  python38 scripts This method solved my issue

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Just be sure that you have include python to windows PATH variable  then run python -m ensurepip

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turned out i had 2 versions of python on my laptop  both commands worked for me   python -m ensurepip py -m ensurepip   both with another installation path  c  tools python lib site-packages c  program files  x86  microsoft visual studio shared python36 64 lib site-packages    only the first path was in my  PATH  variable

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The ensurepip module was added in version 3 4 and then backported to 2 7 9   So make sure your Python version is at least 2 7 9 if using Python 2  and at least 3 4 if using Python 3

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Follow steps given in https   michlstechblog info blog python-install-python-with-pip-on-windows-by-the-embeddable-zip-file   Replace x with version number of Python    Open the pythonxx   pth file  located in your python folder  Edit the contents  e g  D  Pythonx x x to the following      D  Pythonx x x   D  Pythonx x x DLLs  D  Pythonx x x lib  D  Pythonx x x lib plat-win   D  Pythonx x x lib site-packages

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try to type pip3 instead pip  also for upgrading pip dont use pip3 in the command  python -m pip install -U pip   maybe it helps

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