OS: Mac OS X 10.7.5 Python Ver: 2.7.5

I have installed setuptools 1.0 with ez_setup.py from https://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools Then I download pip.1.4.1 pkg from https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pip/1.4.1.

Run (sudo) python setup.py install in iTerm shows that

running install
running bdist_egg running egg_info writing requirements to
pip.egg-info/requires.txt writing pip.egg-info/PKG-INFO writing
top-level names to pip.egg-info/top_level.txt writing dependency_links
to pip.egg-info/dependency_links.txt writing entry points to
pip.egg-info/entry_points.txt warning: manifest_maker: standard file
'setup.py' not found

reading manifest file 'pip.egg-info/SOURCES.txt' writing manifest file
'pip.egg-info/SOURCES.txt' installing library code to
build/bdist.macosx-10.6-intel/egg running install_lib warning:
install_lib: 'build/lib' does not exist -- no Python modules to
install

creating build/bdist.macosx-10.6-intel/egg creating
build/bdist.macosx-10.6-intel/egg/EGG-INFO copying
pip.egg-info/PKG-INFO -> build/bdist.macosx-10.6-intel/egg/EGG-INFO
copying pip.egg-info/SOURCES.txt ->
build/bdist.macosx-10.6-intel/egg/EGG-INFO copying
pip.egg-info/dependency_links.txt ->
build/bdist.macosx-10.6-intel/egg/EGG-INFO copying
pip.egg-info/entry_points.txt ->
build/bdist.macosx-10.6-intel/egg/EGG-INFO copying
pip.egg-info/not-zip-safe ->
build/bdist.macosx-10.6-intel/egg/EGG-INFO copying
pip.egg-info/requires.txt ->
build/bdist.macosx-10.6-intel/egg/EGG-INFO copying
pip.egg-info/top_level.txt ->
build/bdist.macosx-10.6-intel/egg/EGG-INFO creating
'dist/pip-1.4.1-py2.7.egg' and adding
'build/bdist.macosx-10.6-intel/egg' to it removing
'build/bdist.macosx-10.6-intel/egg' (and everything under it)
Processing pip-1.4.1-py2.7.egg removing
'/Users/dl/Library/Python/2.7/lib/python/site-packages/pip-1.4.1-py2.7.egg'
(and everything under it) creating
/Users/dl/Library/Python/2.7/lib/python/site-packages/pip-1.4.1-py2.7.egg
Extracting pip-1.4.1-py2.7.egg to
/Users/dl/Library/Python/2.7/lib/python/site-packages pip 1.4.1 is
already the active version in easy-install.pth Installing pip script
to /Users/dl/Library/Python/2.7/bin Installing pip-2.7 script to
/Users/dl/Library/Python/2.7/bin

Installed
/Users/dl/Library/Python/2.7/lib/python/site-packages/pip-1.4.1-py2.7.egg
Processing dependencies for pip==1.4.1 Finished processing
dependencies for pip==1.4.1

Then I inputed pip install, the error message showed like that

Traceback (most recent call last):   File
"/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin/pip", line 9,
in <module>
load_entry_point('pip==1.4.1', 'console_scripts', 'pip')()   File "build/bdist.macosx-10.6-intel/egg/pkg_resources.py", line 357, in
load_entry_point   File
"build/bdist.macosx-10.6-intel/egg/pkg_resources.py", line 2394, in
load_entry_point   File
"build/bdist.macosx-10.6-intel/egg/pkg_resources.py", line 2108, in
load ImportError: No module named pip

Anyone who met the same problem before and can give me some tips to solve it?

I had the same problem. My solution:

For Python 3

sudo apt-get install python3-pip

For Python 2

sudo apt-get install python-pip

On Mac using brew is a better option as apt-get is not available. Command:

brew install python

In case you have both python2 & python3 installed on machine

python2.7 -m ensurepip --default-pip

simply should solve the issue.

If instead you are missing pip from python 3 then simply change python2.7 to python3 in the command above.

After installing ez_setup, you should have easy_install available. To install pip just do:

easy_install pip

With macOS 10.15 and Homebrew 2.1.6 I was getting this error with Python 3.7. I just needed to run:

python3 -m ensurepip

Now python3 -m pip works for me.

Try to install pip through Python:

Please go to: https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/installing/

and download get-pip.py, and then run:

(sudo) python get-pip.py

I ran into this same issue when I attempted to install the nova client.

spencers-macbook-pro:python-novaclient root# python  setup.py install    
running install
/usr/bin/python: No module named pip
error: /usr/bin/python -m pip.__init__ install   'pbr>=0.5.21,<1.0' 'iso8601>=0.1.4' 'PrettyTable>=0.6,<0.8' 'requests>=1.1' 'simplejson>=2.0.9' 'six' 'Babel>=0.9.6' returned 1

I use homebrew so I worked around the issue with sudo easy_install pip

spencers-macbook-pro:python-novaclient root# brew search pip
aespipe     brew-pip    lesspipe    pipebench   pipemeter   spiped  pipeviewer

If you meant "pip" precisely:

Homebrew provides pip via: `brew install python`. However you will then
have two Pythons installed on your Mac, so alternatively you can:
    sudo easy_install pip
spencers-macbook-pro:python-novaclient root# sudo easy_install pip

The commands should be similar if you use macports.

I think none of these answers above can fix your problem.

I was also confused by this problem once. You should manually install pip following the official guide pip installation (which currently involves running a single get-pip.py Python script)

after that, just sudo pip install Django. The error will be gone.

I know this thread is old, but I just solved the problem for myself on OS X differently than described here.

Basically I reinstalled Python 2.7 through brew, and it comes with pip.

Install Xcode if not already:

xcode-select –install

Install Brew as described here:

ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

Then install Python through Brew:

brew install python

And you’re done. In my case I just needed to install pyserial.

pip install pyserial

I downloaded pip binaries from here and it resolved the issue.

In terminal try this:

ls -lA /usr/local/bin | grep pip

in my case i get:

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root  root      284 Сен 13 16:20 pip
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root  root      204 Окт 27 16:37 pip2
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root  root      204 Окт 27 16:37 pip2.7
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root  root      292 Сен 13 16:20 pip-3.4

So pip2 || pip2.7 in my case works, and pip

my py version is 3.7.3, and this cmd worked

python3.7 -m pip install requests

requests library – for retrieving data from web APIs.

This runs the pip module and asks it to find the requests library on PyPI.org (the Python Package Index) and install it in your local system so that it becomes available for you to import

I solved a similar error on Linux by setting PYTHONPATH to the site-packages location. This was after running python get-pip.py --prefix /home/chet/pip.

[chet@rhel1 ~]$ ~/pip/bin/pip -V
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/chet/pip/bin/pip", line 7, in <module>
    from pip import main
ImportError: No module named pip

[chet@rhel1 ~]$ export PYTHONPATH=/home/chet/pip/lib/python2.6/site-packages

[chet@rhel1 ~]$ ~/pip/bin/pip -V
pip 9.0.1 from /home/chet/pip/lib/python2.6/site-packages (python 2.6)

Tested below for Linux: You can directly download pip from https://pypi.org/simple/pip/ untar and use directly with your latest python.

tar -xvf  pip-0.2.tar.gz
cd pip-0.2

Check for the contents.

anant$ ls
docs  pip.egg-info  pip-log.txt  pip.py  PKG-INFO  regen-docs  scripts  setup.cfg  setup.py  tests

Execute directly:

anant$ python pip.py --help
Usage: pip.py COMMAND [OPTIONS]

Options:
  --version             show program's version number and exit
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -E DIR, --environment=DIR
                        virtualenv environment to run pip in (either give the
                        interpreter or the environment base directory)
  -v, --verbose         Give more output
  -q, --quiet           Give less output
  --log=FILENAME        Log file where a complete (maximum verbosity) record
                        will be kept
  --proxy=PROXY         Specify a proxy in the form
                        user:passwd@proxy.server:port. Note that the
                        user:password@ is optional and required only if you
                        are behind an authenticated proxy.  If you provide
                        user@proxy.server:port then you will be prompted for a
                        password.
  --timeout=SECONDS     Set the socket timeout (default 15 seconds)

Here’s a minimal set of instructions for upgrading to Python 3 using MacPorts:

sudo port install py37-pip
sudo port select --set pip pip37
sudo port select --set pip3 pip37
sudo pip install numpy, scipy, matplotlib

I ran some old code and it works again after this upgrade.

Followed the advise on this URL, to rename the python39._pth file. That solved the issue

https://michlstechblog.info/blog/python-install-python-with-pip-on-windows-by-the-embeddable-zip-file/#more-5606

ren python39._pth python39._pth.save

On some kind of linux like ubuntu, first, do apt-get update and then try installing the python-pip package. without apt-get update, you might get error such as

E: Unable to locate package python-pip

1.Update :

sudo apt-get update

2.Install the pip package

For python2

sudo apt-get install python-pip

or

For python3

sudo apt-get install python3-pip

And done!