Pipenv: Pip3 breaks after pipenv install

[JonathanWillitts]

I have an issue where after a local install of pipenv, whenever I try to use the pip3 command it throws errors.

I'm not sure if this is an issue with pipenv itself,, the Ubuntu distribution's pip3 package, pip itself, or something I'm doing wrong, but it does seem to occur immediately after the pipenv isntall

I'm testing using Vagrant, and have tried to simplify the steps to reproduce (from a vanilla VM below)

Expected result

The system pip3 command to work after a local/user install of pipenv. e.g.

vagrant@ubuntu-artful:~$ pip3 --version
pip 9.0.1 from /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages (python 3.6)

Actual result

The system pip3 throws errors such as:

vagrant@ubuntu-artful:~$ pip3 --version
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/pip3", line 9, in <module>
    from pip import main
ImportError: cannot import name 'main'

Steps to replicate

# On vanilla Ubuntu 17.10 Vagrant VM -> Update package lists and install Pip3
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install --assume-yes python3-pip

# Log Pip3 info
pip3 --version  # outputs: pip 9.0.1 from /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages (python 3.6)
which pip3  # outputs: /usr/bin/pip3

# Install pipenv as user
pip3 install --user pipenv 

# Log Pip3 info
pip3 --version  # throws traceback above
which pip3  # outputs: /usr/bin/pip3

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sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install --assume-yes python3-pip

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pip3 --version; which pip3 # pre pipenv install

vagrant@ubuntu-artful:~$ # Log Pip3 info before pipenv install
vagrant@ubuntu-artful:~$ pip3 --version
pip 9.0.1 from /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages (python 3.6)
vagrant@ubuntu-artful:~$ which pip3
/usr/bin/pip3

pip3 install --user pipenv

vagrant@ubuntu-artful:~$ # Install pipenv as user
vagrant@ubuntu-artful:~$ pip3 install --user pipenv
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Installing collected packages: virtualenv-clone, certifi, setuptools, pip, virtualenv, pipenv
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pip3 --version; which pip3 # post pipenv install

vagrant@ubuntu-artful:~$ # Log Pip3 info after pipenv install
vagrant@ubuntu-artful:~$ pip3 --version
which pip3Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/pip3", line 9, in <module>
    from pip import main
ImportError: cannot import name 'main'
vagrant@ubuntu-artful:~$ which pip3
/usr/bin/pip3

Environment:

• Ubuntu 17.10 (running under Vagrant)
  
  $ python -m pipenv.help output

Pipenv version: '11.10.1'

Pipenv location: '/home/vagrant/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pipenv'

Python location: '/usr/bin/python3'

Other Python installations in PATH:

• 3.6: /usr/bin/python3.6m

• 3.6: /usr/bin/python3.6

• 3.6.3: /usr/bin/python3

PEP 508 Information:

{'implementation_name': 'cpython',
 'implementation_version': '3.6.3',
 'os_name': 'posix',
 'platform_machine': 'x86_64',
 'platform_python_implementation': 'CPython',
 'platform_release': '4.13.0-38-generic',
 'platform_system': 'Linux',
 'platform_version': '#43-Ubuntu SMP Wed Mar 14 15:20:44 UTC 2018',
 'python_full_version': '3.6.3',
 'python_version': '3.6',
 'sys_platform': 'linux'}

System environment variables:

• LS_COLORS
• SSH_CONNECTION
• LESSCLOSE
• LANG
• XDG_SESSION_ID
• USER
• PWD
• HOME
• SSH_CLIENT
• XDG_DATA_DIRS
• SSH_TTY
• MAIL
• TERM
• SHELL
• SHLVL
• LOGNAME
• XDG_RUNTIME_DIR
• PATH
• LESSOPEN
• _
• PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE
• PIP_PYTHON_PATH

Pipenv–specific environment variables:

Debug–specific environment variables:

• PATH: /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/snap/bin
• SHELL: /bin/bash
• LANG: C.UTF-8
• PWD: /home/vagrant

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[techalchemy]

Without full output logs it is going to be nearly impossible to understand what occurred. Can you provide a reproducible example or at least include the relevant output?

As an FYI pip 9.0.1 is out of date and python3.6 -m pip is a generally safer way to call your system pip

[JonathanWillitts]

[...]Can you provide a reproducible example[...]

Are the above 'Steps to replicate' not enough to reproduce? If not I'll look to run again and collect all output.

As an FYI pip 9.0.1 is out of date and python3.6 -m pip is a generally safer way to call your system pip

To add to the complexity, I'm trying to set things up in Ansible, and had hoped to use Ansible's pip module to install pipenv rather than issuing commands. Note: for the purpose of testing the above I've reproduced everything without Ansible.

[JonathanWillitts]

Ok, I've run the steps again, and added the output to the initial post.

[techalchemy]

pip3 install --user pipenv
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Successfully installed certifi-2018.4.16 pip-10.0.1 pipenv-11.10.1 setuptools-39.1.0 virtualenv-15.2.0 virtualenv-clone-0.3.0

The user installation of pipenv also installed pip, and pip 10 isn't compatible with pip 9 -- your executable path might point at /usr/bin/pip, but your python path is looking in your user site packages for pip when it does the import. You need to add to your bashrc/adjust your path however you like with the following: export PATH="${HOME}/.local/bin:$PATH"

Sorry for the confusion! Distribution packaged pip versions cause a lot more headaches than they are worth.

[Nditah]

Please simply reinstall pip3:

sudo python3 -m pip uninstall pip && sudo apt install python3-pip --reinstall