ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pip' python3

Question

I can't use pip and I don't know why. The error I get is shown below:

  File "d:\python\lib\runpy.py", line 193, in _run_module_as_main
    return _run_code(code, main_globals, None,
  File "d:\python\lib\runpy.py", line 86, in _run_code
    exec(code, run_globals)
  File "D:\Python\Scripts\pip.exe\__main__.py", line 5, in <module>
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pip'

If I try py -3.8 -m pip install I get D:\Python\python.exe: No module named pip .

If I use get-pip nothing happens.

If I try to upgrade pip nothing happens.

Answer 1

Try

python -m ensurepip

This command activates pip.

Ref. https://docs.python.org/3/library/ensurepip.html

After this you can upgrade

python -m pip install --upgrade pip

Answer 2

Try this python -m pip install --upgrade pip

A suggestion, try to use anaconda or virtual env to avoid such issues.

Answer 3

I had the same problem, but found that python -m ensurepip just told me that the pip scripts were already installed. So what I did was delete the 2 pip directories under C:\Users\[user_id]\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38\Lib\site-packages , then run python -m ensurepip again. That fixed it for me.

Answer 4

I had the same problem. But in my case, when I was upgrading the pip version the new version stopped installing (upgrading) before the older version successfully uninstalled. After searching 4 or 5 sites I found:

python -m ensurepip

I was able to use the pip command and also this:

python -m pip install --upgrade pip

Answer 5

For Debian/Ubuntu/Linux Mint and derivatives users

Install pip using APT:

sudo apt install python3-pip

Answer 6

I don't know what OS you are using and what errors you got when using get-pip, but I had similar issue on Ubuntu20 and this solved it:

curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py -o get-pip.py
python3 get-pip.py --force-reinstall

Credit: @Benjamin's answer here: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1025189/pip-is-not-working-importerror-no-module-named-pip-internal