AttributeError: Module Pip has no attribute 'main'

Question

I am trying to build the python api for an open source project called Zulip and I keep running into the same issue as indicated by the screenshot below.

I am running

Answer 1

python3 -m pip install --user --upgrade pip==9.0.3

pip issue: rollback

Answer 2

This helps me, https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/installing/

curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py -o get-pip.py
python get-pip.py

If you are using python3 and not set it default. do this,

python3 get-pip.py

It works for me.

Answer 3

My solution is to check the version number of pip and use the import the correct main function correctly

    import pip

    if int(pip.__version__.split('.')[0])>9:
        from pip._internal import main
    else:
        from pip import main
    def install(package):
        main(['install', package])

Answer 4

It appears that pip did a refactor and moved main to internal. There is a comprehensive discussion about it here: https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/5240

A workaround for me was to change

import pip
pip.main(...)

to

from pip._internal import main
main(...)

I recommend reading through the discussion, I'm not sure this is the best approach, but it worked for my purposes.