AttributeError when installing PIP

[stevecomp]

Hi all,

I'm getting this error when installing pip:

AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'Transport'

I'm on Windows10 using python version 2.7.16 and using get-pip.py (https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py)for the installation.



I'm a bit flumoxed on how to fix this.

Thanks for any advice

S

[ndc85430]

First and foremost, why are you using Python 2 at all? It reached end of life at the beginning of the year, so you really should be using version 3.

[stevecomp]

I work in the VFX industry and alot of the software packages we used have not yet transitioned over to python 3.
So stuck in python 2 for a little while longer

[ndc85430]

You shouldn't need to install pip separately though; it's been included in 2.x since 2.7.9, according to the docs.

[stevecomp]

Yes, thats something I should have mentioned, I thought it was included but when I tried to use it I got an error message.

here's the results from a version check:


C:\Users\STEVE>python --version
Python 2.7.16

C:\Users\STEVE>pip --version
'pip' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

[ndc85430]

What about python -m pip --version as per the docs I linked to above?

I'm not a Windows user, so don't know why you don't have pip as a standalone command.

[stevecomp]

Im getting this with that command:

C:\Users\STEVE>python -m pip --version
C:\Python27\python.exe: No module named pip

[ndc85430]

That's odd. Look at the docs I linked to - there's a section titled "Pip not installed". What happens if you try the solution there?

[stevecomp]

Had a go at that, and the attribute error rears it's ugly head:

C:\Users\STEVE>python -m ensurepip --default-pip
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Python27\lib\runpy.py", line 174, in _run_module_as_main
"__main__", fname, loader, pkg_name)
File "C:\Python27\lib\runpy.py", line 72, in _run_code
exec code in run_globals
File "C:\Python27\lib\ensurepip\__main__.py", line 5, in <module>
sys.exit(ensurepip._main())
File "C:\Python27\lib\ensurepip\__init__.py", line 219, in _main
default_pip=args.default_pip,
File "C:\Python27\lib\ensurepip\__init__.py", line 123, in _bootstrap
return _run_pip(args + [p[0] for p in _PROJECTS], additional_paths)
File "C:\Python27\lib\ensurepip\__init__.py", line 31, in _run_pip
import pip._internal
File "c:\users\steve\appdata\local\temp\tmpoqrpxt\pip-18.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl\pip\_internal\__init__.py", line 40, in <module>

File "c:\users\steve\appdata\local\temp\tmpoqrpxt\pip-18.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl\pip\_internal\cli\autocompletion.py", line 8, in <module>
File "c:\users\steve\appdata\local\temp\tmpoqrpxt\pip-18.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl\pip\_internal\cli\main_parser.py", line 12, in <module>
File "c:\users\steve\appdata\local\temp\tmpoqrpxt\pip-18.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl\pip\_internal\commands\__init__.py", line 6, in <module>

File "c:\users\steve\appdata\local\temp\tmpoqrpxt\pip-18.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl\pip\_internal\commands\completion.py", line 6, in <module>
File "c:\users\steve\appdata\local\temp\tmpoqrpxt\pip-18.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl\pip\_internal\cli\base_command.py", line 18, in <module>
File "c:\users\steve\appdata\local\temp\tmpoqrpxt\pip-18.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl\pip\_internal\download.py", line 771, in <module>
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'Transport'

Thinking I might try and re-instal python

[snippsat]

Go to Scripts folder in cmd and test if it's environment Path problem.
When in folder it will use what's in folder and not what set in Windows environment Path.

C:\Users\Tom>cd\
C:\>cd Python27
C:\Python27>cd scripts

C:\Python27\Scripts>pip --version
pip 18.1 from c:\python27\lib\site-packages\pip (python 2.7)
C:\Python27\Scripts>

So Script folder is placement of pip.exe.
I do of course not have 2.7 as main version in Path.
If go to any other folder i will use Python 3.8.

C:\Python27\Scripts>cd ..
C:\Python27>cd ..

C:\>pip --version
pip 20.2.3 from c:\python38\lib\site-packages\pip (python 3.8)
C:\>python --version
Python 3.8.3

Also if have python 3.8 installed then can use py(new in Python 3.3 -->),to access all version from Python.org.

# Use py 
C:\>py -2.7 --version
Python 2.7.9

# Use pip from py
C:\>py -2.7 -m pip install logzero
Requirement already satisfied: colorama; sys_platform == "win32" in c:\python27\
lib\site-packages (from logzero) (0.3.2)