pip no module named internal

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I have a problem when I try to use pip in any way  I m using Ubuntu 16 04 4 I should say that I ve used it already  and I never had any problem  but starting today when I use any command I always get the same error  as an example using pip --upgrade   Traceback  most recent call last     File  quot  usr local bin pip quot   line 7  in  lt module gt      from pip  internal import main ImportError  No module named  internal  I have tried doing sudo apt-get remove python-pip followed by sudo apt-get install python-pip but nothing changed

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These often comes from using pip to  update  system installed pip  and or having multiple pip installs under user   My solution was to clean out the multiple installed pips under user  reinstall pip repo  then  pip install --user pip  as above   See  https   github com pypa pip issues 5599 for an official complete discussion and fixes for the problem

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Nothing worked for me  but only one thing  I used sudo in front of the command and it is working fine

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For the current user only   easy install --user pip  or   python -m pip install --upgrade --user pip  The second may give  usr bin python  No module named pip Even if which pip finds the module named pip  In this case try the easy install

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This solution works for me   curl https   bootstrap pypa io get-pip py -o get-pip py python3 get-pip py --force-reinstall   or use sudo for elevated permissions  sudo python3 get-pip py --force-reinstall    Of course  you can also use python instead of python3     Source

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I fixed this problem by  sudo apt-get install python3-pip   this worked even for python2 7  amazing

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you can remove it first  and install again  it will be ok  for centos   yum remove python-pip yum install python-pip

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This issue maybe due to common user do not have privilege to access packages py file  1  root user can run  pip list  2  other common user cannot run  pip list          pip list Traceback  most recent call last     File   usr bin pip   line 7  in  lt module gt  from pip  internal import main ImportError  No module named pip  internal   Check pip py file privilege        root    ll  usr lib python2 7 site-packages pip       24   -rw-------  1 root root   24  6   7 16 57   init   py   -rw-------  1 root root  163  6   7 16 57   init   pyc   -rw-------  1 root root  629  6   7 16 57   main   py   -rw-------  1 root root  510  6   7 16 57   main   pyc   drwx------  8 root root 4096  6   7 16 57  internal   drwx------ 18 root root 4096  6   7 16 57  vendor     solution   root user login and run  chmod -R 755  usr lib python2 7    fix this issue

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An answer from askUbuntu works   For pip2 7  you can at first curl https   bootstrap pypa io get-pip py -o get-pip py  then python2 7 get-pip py --force-reinstall to reinstall pip   Problem solved  Also works for python3

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I ve seen this issue when PYTHONPATH was set to include the built-in site-packages directory  Since Python looks there automatically it is unnecessary and can be removed

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For completeness  I just encountered this problem with  Ubuntu latest      v18 04     and fixed it in this way   python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip   Notice that it was necessary to specify python3 since this references Python 3 6 9   The python command on the same system references Python 2 7 17   Since this is apparently a system-wide installation it encountered a   not sudo       permission error  but it didn t matter because it was the wrong thing to do anyway   I was encountering the problem with pip3

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I tried the following command to solve the issue and it worked for me  curl https   bootstrap pypa io get-pip py -o get-pip py python3 get-pip py --force-reinstall

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My solution is adding import pip to the script linked to the pip pip3 commands   Firstly  open the file  e g   usr local bin pip  with your favorite text editor and the sudo mode  For example  I use sudo vim  usr local bin pip to open the script file   You will obtain some file as following   import re import sys  from pip  internal import main  if   name         main         sys argv 0    re sub r  -script  pyw    exe          sys argv 0       sys exit main      Afterwards  insert the statement import pip just before the from pip  internal import main then the issue is resolved

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This did it for me   python -m pip install --upgrade pip   Environment  OSX  amp  amp  Python installed via brew

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Are you using python2 or python3  The following commands could be different   run python3 -m pip --version to see if you have pip installed  if yes  run python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip  if no  run sudo apt-get install python3-pip  and do it again

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my solution  first step like most other answer   curl https   bootstrap pypa io get-pip py -o get-pip py python2 7 get-pip py --force-reinstall   second  add soft link  sudo ln -s  usr local bin pip  usr bin pip

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I have fixed this error by running the following commands   sudo apt remove python-pip wget https   bootstrap pypa io get-pip py sudo python get-pip py   It will remove the previously installed pip and reinstall it   Thanks

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Refer to this issue list  sudo easy install pip   works for me under Mac OS  For python3  may try sudo easy install-3 x pip depends on the python 3 x version  Or python3 -m pip install --user --upgrade pip

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I met the same error on Windows when I tried to install a package via pip3   Traceback  most recent call last     File  d  anaconda lib runpy py   line 193  in  run module as main        main     mod spec    File  d  anaconda lib runpy py   line 85  in  run code     exec code  run globals    File  D  Anaconda Scripts pip3 6 exe   main   py   line 5  in  lt module gt  ModuleNotFoundError  No module named  pip  internal    My python is installed via Anaconda  I solved this issue by reinstalling pip via conda   conda install pip   After that  pip returns to normal

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Its probably due to a version conflict  try to run this  it will remove the older pip somehow   sudo apt remove python pip

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On windows  not sure why this was happening but I had my PYTHONPATH setup to point to c  python27 where python was installed  in combination with virtualenv this produced the mentioned bug   resolved by removing the PYTHONPATH env var all together

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In file   usr local bin pip  change from pip  internal import main to from pip import main

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For me   python -m pip uninstall pip   solved the issue  Reference

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I have the same problem on my virtual environment after upgrade python installation from 3 6 to 3 7 but only on vent globally pip work fine  to solve it I deactivate and delete my virtual environment after recreate again and now is fine  on venv   deactivate rm -rvf venv    and after recreate the virtual environment  I use mac OS 10 11  and python 3

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The following solution solved the problem on my machine for python2 7     curl https   bootstrap pypa io get-pip py -o get-pip py  and then    sudo python2 7 get-pip py --force-reinstall

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I just encountered the same problem and in my case  it turns out this is a conflict between the python installation in my virtualenv and the site-wide python  Ubuntu   What solves it for me is to run pip in this way  to force usage of the correct python installation  in my vortualenv    python3 -m pip install PACKAGE   instead of   pip3 install PACKAGE   I realised this when I tried to follow some of the answers here that suggest re-installing pip and the error output I got was pointing to an existing site-wide python library path although I had activated my virtualenv   Worth trying before deleting and re-installing stuff

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This command works for me   curl https   bootstrap pypa io get-pip py -o get-pip py python get-pip py --force-reinstall --user

[python] pip: no module named _internal

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