`pipenv check` in a shell script errors from using outdated pip functionality

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Issue description

pipenv check works fine until I run it in a shell script. Then I get an error:

pipenv install
pipenv check
# ...

An error occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/runpy.py", line 193, in _run_module_as_main
    "__main__", mod_spec)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/runpy.py", line 85, in _run_code
    exec(code, run_globals)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pipenv/patched/safety.zip/__main__.py", line 8, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pipenv/patched/safety.zip/click/core.py", line 722, in __call__
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pipenv/patched/safety.zip/click/core.py", line 697, in main
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pipenv/patched/safety.zip/click/core.py", line 1066, in invoke
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pipenv/patched/safety.zip/click/core.py", line 895, in invoke
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pipenv/patched/safety.zip/click/core.py", line 535, in invoke
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pipenv/patched/safety.zip/safety/cli.py", line 52, in check
AttributeError: module 'pip' has no attribute 'get_installed_distributions'

Note that this is a healthy environment – my Python code runs fine. It seems like for some reason pipenv is using a very old and no-longer-existing pip function which was removed starting in pip 10. But only when I’m running in a shell script, which is strange because the environment is the same.

Expected result

pip check succeeds`

Actual result

See above

Steps to replicate

Pipfile:

[[source]]
name = "pypi"
url = "https://pypi.org/simple"
verify_ssl = true

[dev-packages]

[packages]
appdirs = "==1.4.3"
astroid = "==2.3.2"
attrs = "==19.1.0"
black = "==19.3b0"
boto3 = "==1.10.2"
botocore = "==1.13.2"
cachetools = "==3.1.1"
certifi = "==2019.6.16"
chardet = "==3.0.4"
click = "==7.0"
docutils = "==0.15.2"
google-api-core = "==1.14.3"
google-auth = "==1.6.3"
google-auth-oauthlib = "==0.4.0"
google-cloud-bigquery = "==1.15.0"
google-cloud-core = "==1.0.2"
google-cloud-kms = "==1.2.1"
google-resumable-media = "==0.3.2"
googleapis-common-protos = "==1.6.0"
grpc-google-iam-v1 = "==0.12.3"
grpcio = "==1.25.0"
idna = "==2.8"
isort = "==4.3.21"
jmespath = "==0.9.4"
lazy-object-proxy = "==1.4.2"
mccabe = "==0.6.1"
numpy = "==1.16.4"
oauthlib = "==3.0.1"
pandas = "==0.24.2"
pandas-gbq = "==0.10.0"
protobuf = "==3.8.0"
pyarrow = "==0.13.0"
pyasn1 = "==0.4.5"
pyasn1-modules = "==0.2.5"
pydata-google-auth = "==0.1.3"
pylint = "==2.4.3"
python-dateutil = "==2.8.0"
pytz = "==2019.1"
requests = "==2.22.0"
requests-oauthlib = "==1.2.0"
rsa = "==4.0"
s3transfer = "==0.2.1"
six = "==1.12.0"
toml = "==0.10.0"
typed-ast = "==1.4.0"
urllib3 = "==1.25.3"
wrapt = "==1.11.2"
PyYAML = "==5.2"
# We need to use this (very) old version of pip as pipenv uses an old pip function which no longer exists.
# See https://github.com/Miserlou/Zappa/issues/1471
pip = "*"

[requires]
python_version = "3.7"

code:

if [ ! -d env ]; then
  python3 -m venv env
fi
source env/bin/activate
pipenv install
pipenv check 

Provide the steps to replicate (which usually at least includes the commands and the Pipfile).

---

Please run $ pipenv --support, and paste the results here. Don’t put backticks (`) around it! The output already contains Markdown formatting.

Error: no such option: --support

[AdnanHodzic]

I have this same problem on Ubuntu 20.04 while I don’t have this problem on MacBook.

To state the obvious, problem is old pipenv version. As latest available version of pipenv in Debian/Ubuntu repositories is too old: 11.9.0-1.

Hence I would suggest you change preferable install method on Debian/Ubuntu from sudo apt install pipenv in pipenv Installation section to:

pip3 install pipenv

Which addresses this issue in my case.

[matteius]

This should be resolved with pipenv==2022.8.19 as we rely exclusively on the vendor’d version of pip.