I'm not sure if it's only my system or if it's real, but I'm not the only one who's made this observation:
pip3
breaks and throws a traceback -- not even being able to start up.
The relevant traceback is
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pip/_internal/__init__.py", line 40, in <module>
from pip._internal.cli.autocompletion import autocomplete
File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pip/_internal/cli/autocompletion.py", line 8, in <module>
from pip._internal.cli.main_parser import create_main_parser
File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pip/_internal/cli/main_parser.py", line 11, in <module>
from pip._internal.commands import (
File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pip/_internal/commands/__init__.py", line 6, in <module>
from pip._internal.commands.completion import CompletionCommand
File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pip/_internal/commands/completion.py", line 6, in <module>
from pip._internal.cli.base_command import Command
File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pip/_internal/cli/base_command.py", line 26, in <module>
from pip._internal.index import PackageFinder
ImportError: cannot import name 'PackageFinder' from 'pip._internal.index' (/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pip/_internal/index/__init__.py)
I've done my housekeeping. eopkg check python3
, double-checking file permissions, manually looking for the relevant file, reinstalling when I got desperate... Nothing worked.
I just want to know if I'm not alone with this weird bug.