How do I tell pipenv which version of pip to use?

Pip 18.1 is quite buggy, constantly throwing up TypeError: 'module' object is not callable and breaking installs on Windows machines, so I’d like to tell pipenv to only ever use 18.0 until pip gets a fix in some next version. However, while there is a pipenv --python ... command, there does not appear to be a pipenv --pip 18.0 that I can set to ensure pipenv doesn’t use the wrong pip version.

I can’t find any mention about this in the docs, so: how do I make pipenv use an explicit version of pip when invoking it? Or even better, how do I configure pipenv so that it picks my preferred version of pip by default, unless I tell it not to using a flag?

[juanitosvq]

Hey I came across this issue while trying to get my environment to run with the latest version of pip v21.1.1.

I’ve managed to make this work by using pipenv run python -m pip install pip==18.0 but that’s kind of a crazy amount of indirection just to make pipenv use a specific version of pip =)

Is this the only way we can specify which version of pip to run in the environment? Thanks in advance.

UPDATE: It’s possible to set an environment variable to specify the version of pip to use by the virtual environment:

export VIRTUALENV_PIP=21.1.1

[Pomax]

I’ve managed to make this work by using pipenv run python -m pip install pip==18.0 but that’s kind of a crazy amount of indirection just to make pipenv use a specific version of pip =)