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Incorrect command is shown to upgrade pip3

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macOS High Sierra Version 10.13.6 Terminal App

pip version: 19.2.3
Python version: 3.8
OS: High Sierra Version 10.13.6

Description At Python 3.8 fresh (1st time - only Python 2 was present prior) install, as well as after pip3 list command, the following incorrect message is displayed:

WARNING: You are using pip version 19.2.3, however version 19.3.1 is available.
You should consider upgrading via the 'pip install --upgrade pip' command.

Expected behavior The correct message to be displayed should read:

WARNING: You are using pip version 19.2.3, however version 19.3.1 is available.
You should consider upgrading via the 'pip**3** install --upgrade pip' command.

(missing 3 after pip)

How to Reproduce

Get package from https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.8.0/python-3.8.0-macosx10.9.pkg
Then run https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.8.0/python-3.8.0-macosx10.9.pkg

The warning is displayed:

WARNING: You are using pip version 19.2.3, however version 19.3.1 is available.
You should consider upgrading via the 'pip install --upgrade pip' command.`

Then run pip install --upgrade pip as suggested by the warning.

An error is displayed:

Collecting pip3
  ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement pip3 (from versions: none)
ERROR: No matching distribution found for pip3

Then run pip3 install --upgrade pip as suggested by me above.

Successful installation should commence, e.g.:

Collecting pip
  Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/00/b6/9cfa56b4081ad13874b0c6f96af8ce16cfbc1cb06bedf8e9164ce5551ec1/pip-19.3.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl (1.4MB)
     |████████████████████████████████| 1.4MB 3.4MB/s 
Installing collected packages: pip
  Found existing installation: pip 19.2.3
    Uninstalling pip-19.2.3:
      Successfully uninstalled pip-19.2.3
Successfully installed pip-19.3.1
MM:~ username$ pip3 list
Package    Version  
---------- ---------
certifi    2019.9.11
pip        19.3.1   
setuptools 41.2.0

Issue Analytics

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Created 4 years ago
Reactions:1
Comments:6 (4 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

3reactions

chrahuntcommented, Nov 20, 2019

It would be kind of ugly, but we could unconditionally put {sys.executable} -m pip.

1reaction

uday-patelcommented, Dec 27, 2019

pip3 install --upgrade pip Thank you, the above worked

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