Pip installed wrong version of urllib3

I am new to Pythonista and StaSh and have been trying to install Synchronator with the help of StaSh. I have been using StaSh’s pip command to install four packages:

• chardet
• dropbox
• idna
• requests

To do so I used the following commands:

pip install -d ~/Documents/site-packages chardet
pip install -d ~/Documents/site-packages dropbox
pip install -d ~/Documents/site-packages idna
pip install -d ~/Documents/site-packages requests

Following that I had all sorts of grief. For example, when tryng to import requests from the console after killing and restarting Pythonista I got the following:

>>> import requests
/private/var/mobile/Containers/Shared/AppGroup/77E4F4DB-EDA3-49C3-8AAD-D4452754B812/Pythonista3/Documents/site-packages/requests/__init__.py:80: RequestsDependencyWarning: urllib3 (1.4) or chardet (3.0.4) doesn't match a supported version!
  RequestsDependencyWarning)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/private/var/mobile/Containers/Shared/AppGroup/77E4F4DB-EDA3-49C3-8AAD-D4452754B812/Pythonista3/Documents/site-packages/requests/__init__.py", line 90, in <module>
    from urllib3.exceptions import DependencyWarning
ImportError: cannot import name 'DependencyWarning'

Did some more digging and found that StaSh had installed urllib3 version 1.4 whereas the latest version is 1.22.

[ywangd]

Pythonista has requests as part of its standard distribution. You don’t need to install it. So just delete the requests and urllib3 from site-packages and restart Pythonista.

On Mon, 30 Oct 2017 at 4:25 am, Jonathan Hansford [e-mail] wrote:

So what does pip update do?

The only urllib3 I had installed on Pythonista was the one it came with, version 1.14. My understanding is you can’t install over those modules. And how does installing version 1.4 protect anything. It is older than the original Pythonista version yet gets used in preference.

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[Dangthrimble]

So what does pip update do? pip.py says you use update to “update an installed package”. If it manages to update a package why do you then also need to pip install the package?

The only urllib3 I had installed on Pythonista was the one it came with, version 1.14. My understanding is you can’t install over those modules. And how does installing version 1.4 protect anything. It is older than the original Pythonista version yet gets used in preference.