python 3.8 'No module named pip'

Question

[amandanm]

I'm trying to install biopython on my Mac (python 3.8) using pip but get the error message 'No module named pip'

How do I use pip? Do I need to install it?

[Ram]

Try using pip3 instead of pip.

Answer 1

[Andrzej Zielezinski]

Download get-pip.py script to install pip:

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

Install pip:

python3 get-pip.py

Install biopython:

python3 -m pip install biopython

or

pip3 install biopython

[Ram]

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Answer 2

[linehammer]

On Mac using brew is a better option as apt-get is not available. Command:

brew install python

In case you have both python2 & python3 installed on machine

python2.7 -m ensurepip --default-pip

simply should solve the issue.

If instead you are missing pip from python 3 then simply change python2.7 to python3 in the command above.