Issue where pip becomes unusable after pip install --upgrade pip on CentOS 7: ImportError: No module named typing

Wed, 16 Jun 2021 11:13:46 +0800

Problem Description

pip安装某第三方 SDK，提示升级 pip，按提示升级 pip 后报错

pip Upgrade Command that Causes the Error

pip install --upgrade pip

pip Error Message

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/pip", line 9, in <module>
    load_entry_point('pip==21.1.2', 'console_scripts', 'pip')()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 378, in load_entry_point
    return get_distribution(dist).load_entry_point(group, name)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 2566, in load_entry_point
    return ep.load()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 2260, in load
    entry = __import__(self.module_name, globals(),globals(), ['__name__'])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/__init__.py", line 1, in <module>
    from typing import List, Optional
ImportError: No module named typing

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Issue where pip becomes unusable after pip install --upgrade pip on CentOS 7: ImportError: No module named typing

Problem Description

pip Upgrade Command that Causes the Error

pip Error Message