Error after installing pip with easy install (on mac)

Question

I tried to download pip with easy install but after installation whenever I type pip into the mac terminal it gives me this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/pip", line 8, in <module>
    load_entry_point('pip==7.0.3', 'console_scripts', 'pip')()
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/Extras/lib/python/pkg_resources.py", line 271, in load_entry_point
    return get_distribution(dist).load_entry_point(group, name)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/Extras/lib/python/pkg_resources.py", line 2173, in load_entry_point
    return ep.load()
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/Extras/lib/python/pkg_resources.py", line 1906, in load
    entry = __import__(self.module_name, globals(),globals(), ['__name__'])
  File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/pip-7.0.3-py2.5.egg/pip/__init__.py", line 211
    except PipError as exc:
                     ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

and when I try to do pip install pyopengl , it gives me the same error. What do I do to fix this?

Answer 1

Modern pip works with Python 2.6 and higher. It seems you got Python 2.5, so you either need to upgrade Python or use older version of pip.

According to the documentation Python 2.5 was supported through v1.3.1 of pip.