DistributionNotFound error after upgrading pip

Question

In reading about virtualenv here I realized I didn\'t have pip 1.3+, so I ran pip install --upgrade pip and now when I run pip --version i get the

Answer 1

I got similar problem today. After some research, I solved it by reinstalling pip using this:-

python -m pip install --upgrade --force-reinstall pip

Hope somebody would find it helpful.