Pyenv: PyPy3: pyenv: pip: command not found

[paugier]

With pypy3, the command pip is not available

ls /home/me/.pyenv/versions/pypy3.5-7.0.0/bin/
easy_install-3.5*  libpypy3-c.so*  libpypy3-c.so.debug  pip3*  pip3.5*  pypy@  pypy3@  pypy3.5*  pypy3.5.debug  python@  virtualenv-pypy*

so we get:

pip -h
pyenv: pip: command not found

The `pip' command exists in these Python versions:
  3.7.1

I know that one can do python -m pip -h or pip3 -h but what works we CPython should work with PyPy.

I was wondering why there is no command pip with PyPy3. Is it a PyPy issue or should it be solved at the pyenv level ?

[paugier]

Note that after pip3 install --upgrade pip, the command pip becomes available...

[chrahunt]

Thanks for raising an issue (and your earlier PR!)

We re-use the PyPy distribution essentially as-is from squeaky-pl/portable-pypy, you can raise an issue there to see if they will change the packaging. As you stated, the most portable option is python -m pip. Another alternative is to always use virtual environments, then the relevant binaries will usually be available.

The /home/me/.pyenv/shims/pip shim looks in the bin directory of the active Python for an executable of the same name. The reason pip3 install --upgrade pip makes pip visible is because that action created /home/me/.pyenv/versions/pypy3.5-7.0.0/bin/pip.

[chrahunt]

Please let us know if you have any more issues!