How do I fix 'ImportError: cannot import name IncompleteRead'?

Question

When I try to install anything with pip or pip3, I get:

$ sudo pip3 install python3-tk
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Answer 1

Or you can remove all requests.

For example:

• rm -rf /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/requests*

Answer 2

Simply running easy_install -U pip resolved my problem.

Answer 3

For fixing pip3 (worked on Ubuntu 14.10):

easy_install3 -U pip

Answer 4

Check if have a python interpreter alive in any of the terminal windows. If so kill it and try sudo pip which worked for me.

Answer 5

My version of pip on ubuntu suggests:

  pip install --upgrade pip

Answer 6

1. sudo apt-get remove python-pip
2. sudo easy_install requests==2.3.0
3. sudo apt-get install python-pip