pip3 "TypeError: 'module' object is not callable" after update

Question

I am new in Python, I wanna install Jupyter Notebook in my console I enter the following:

pip3 install --upgrade pip 

after that I have a error to use pip3 install other library, the console print:

File "/usr/bin/pip3", line 11, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
TypeError: 'module' object is not callable

I don't know what I have to do.

I use sudo autoremove python3-pip after that I use sudo apt install python3-pip

Solution 1

From the link by Bram, I just ran python3 -m pip uninstall pip, and it started to work again.

Solution 2

Use this

python -m pip install --upgrade --user [name_of_your_package]

Solution 3

The solution which worked for my situation is simply editing the pip3.8 file in the ubuntu environment.

Method1:

#!/path/to/.venv/bin/python3
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import re
import sys

from pip._internal.main import main  # <--- look at this import statement! 

if __name__ == '__main__':
     sys.argv[0] = re.sub(r'(-script\.pyw?|\.exe)?$', '', sys.argv[0])
     sys.exit(main())

method2:

The main function has to be imported or we can simply replace line

sys.exit(main())

As

sys.exit(main.main())

Solution 4

As seen here, you should be able to solve this by running the module from Python directly, i.e.

python -m pip install --upgrade pip

Solution 5

In Windows edit C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\Scripts\pip-script.py and replace

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import re
import sys
from pip._internal import main

if __name__ == '__main__':
    sys.argv[0] = re.sub(r'(-script\.pyw?|\.exe)?$', '', sys.argv[0])
    sys.exit(main())

Replace the last line with sys.exit(main.main()).

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Comments

[furas]

maybe it imports some of your file instead expected module and it has problem to run it - it can be ie. main.py. Did you try to use pip in different folder ?

[Hyrial]

I also had the same error.

[jvonehr]

Thanks for getting me started - I listed my procedure for fixing this on stackoverflow.com/questions/34573159/…

[Saif]

Can somebody explain this?

[vlz]

@SaifUrRahman: From the provided link it seems that this is a conflict between a user specific pip installation (which gets installed/upgraded by the OPs command) and the global pip installation provided by the operating system.

[Jetpack]

Thanks! method #2 worked for me. I'm nervous about it, because I'm afraid it will fail the next time I update /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/pip3.

[alpablo20]

for some reason, I get a giant error starting with 'Could not install packages due to an EnvironmentError:" when I run pip install pandas for example. what could that be about? using the command @Hyrial suggested did help me install pandas with pip3, when before i got the same "module not callable" error.