Python error - “ImportError: cannot import name 'dist'”

Question

I\'m on Ubuntu 16.04, and I get:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File \"/home/omermazig/.virtualenvs/fixi/bin/pip\", line 7, in 
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Answer 1

Since I run into this issue everytime I update my ubuntu version every six months, then stumble on the exact same SO result, here is my solution.

If the other solutions listed here don't work (installing python3-distutils), it might be because of different python versions between the system and the virtualenv.

The easy solution is to destroy your virtualenv, then recreate it from scratch.