Pip for python2 while python3 pip exists

Question

I have both python2 and python3 in my system. But when I try :

python -m pip install sklearn

bash shows :

/usr/bin/python: No module named pip

And

pip --version

Yields :

pip 20.0.2 from /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip (python 3.8)

Python versions are Python 2.7.18 and Python 3.8.2. How to correct this error by having two pip versions?

This is a similar question, but did not solve the issue.

OS is Ubuntu.

pip default version is Python 3. You can use pip2 for using pip of Python 2.x. Hope that this answer: stackoverflow.com/a/11272201 helps you. — HK boy
– HK boy, Commented Jul 7, 2020 at 9:25

Roshin Raphel · Accepted Answer · 2020-07-22 07:23:19Z

2

Thanks to HK boy The following works, it installs pip explicitly for the python version specified :

curl -O https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py
sudo python get-pip.py

I already had pip3 before hand, so to install packages for python3, pip3 install <package> is enough.

answered Jul 22, 2020 at 7:23

Roshin Raphel

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