Pip error -> ImportError: No module named helpers

Question

When I'm trying to install any package using pip it gives an error. It shows "ImportError: No module named helpers" . I tried installing the helpers module using pip but the same error occurred. I'm pasting the output of the error message. Operating System: Arch Linux.

pip2 install requests

Error :

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/pip2", line 11, in <module>
    load_entry_point('pip==18.1', 'console_scripts', 'pip')()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 489, in load_entry_point
    return get_distribution(dist).load_entry_point(group, name)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2793, in load_entry_point
    return ep.load()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2411, in load
    return self.resolve()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2417, in resolve
    module = __import__(self.module_name, fromlist=['__name__'], level=0)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/_internal/__init__.py", line 40, in <module>
    from pip._internal.cli.autocompletion import autocomplete
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/_internal/cli/autocompletion.py", line 8, in <module>
    from pip._internal.cli.main_parser import create_main_parser
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/_internal/cli/main_parser.py", line 8, in <module>
    from pip._internal.cli import cmdoptions
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/_internal/cli/cmdoptions.py", line 22, in <module>
    from pip._internal.utils.ui import BAR_TYPES
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/_internal/utils/ui.py", line 15, in <module>
    from pip._vendor.progress.helpers import HIDE_CURSOR, SHOW_CURSOR, WritelnMixin
ImportError: No module named helpers

Answer 1

Thanks for everyone's help. I found out the solution. When I upgraded to python 3.7 pip was broken. Executing these commands solved the issue.

rm -rf /usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages
python3.7 -m ensurepip
pip install --upgrade pip

Same can be used with Python2 as well, just replacing 3.7 with 2.7 and pip with pip2.