“Unable to locate finder for 'pip._vendor.distlib'” error when using "pip install virtualenv"
PythonPython 3.xPipVirtualenvPython Problem Overview
I am trying to install virtualenv with Python 3.6 version under Windows 10.When I run "pip install virtualenv" I'm getting this error. I am a newbie to Python.
Collecting virtualenv
Downloading virtualenv-15.0.3-py2.py3-none-any.whl (3.5MB)
100% |████████████████████████████████| 3.5MB 256kB/s
Installing collected packages: virtualenv
Exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "c:\users\corey shaw\appdata\local\programs\python\python36\lib\site-packages\pip\basecommand.py", line 215, in main
status = self.run(options, args)
File "c:\users\corey shaw\appdata\local\programs\python\python36\lib\site-packages\pip\commands\install.py", line 317, in run
prefix=options.prefix_path,
File "c:\users\corey shaw\appdata\local\programs\python\python36\lib\site-packages\pip\req\req_set.py", line 742, in install
**kwargs
File "c:\users\corey shaw\appdata\local\programs\python\python36\lib\site-packages\pip\req\req_install.py", line 831, in install
self.move_wheel_files(self.source_dir, root=root, prefix=prefix)
File "c:\users\corey shaw\appdata\local\programs\python\python36\lib\site-packages\pip\req\req_install.py", line 1032, in move_wheel_files
isolated=self.isolated,
File "c:\users\corey shaw\appdata\local\programs\python\python36\lib\site-packages\pip\wheel.py", line 493, in move_wheel_files
maker.make_multiple(['%s = %s' % kv for kv in console.items()])
File "c:\users\corey shaw\appdata\local\programs\python\python36\lib\site-packages\pip\_vendor\distlib\scripts.py", line 383, in make_multiple
filenames.extend(self.make(specification, options))
File "c:\users\corey shaw\appdata\local\programs\python\python36\lib\site-packages\pip\_vendor\distlib\scripts.py", line 372, in make
self._make_script(entry, filenames, options=options)
File "c:\users\corey shaw\appdata\local\programs\python\python36\lib\site-packages\pip\_vendor\distlib\scripts.py", line 276, in _make_script
self._write_script(scriptnames, shebang, script, filenames, ext)
File "c:\users\corey shaw\appdata\local\programs\python\python36\lib\site-packages\pip\_vendor\distlib\scripts.py", line 212, in _write_script
launcher = self._get_launcher('t')
File "c:\users\corey shaw\appdata\local\programs\python\python36\lib\site-packages\pip\_vendor\distlib\scripts.py", line 351, in _get_launcher
result = finder(distlib_package).find(name).bytes
File "c:\users\corey shaw\appdata\local\programs\python\python36\lib\site-packages\pip\_vendor\distlib\resources.py", line 324, in finder
raise DistlibException('Unable to locate finder for %r' % package)
pip._vendor.distlib.DistlibException: Unable to locate finder for 'pip._vendor.distlib'
Python Solutions
Solution 1 - Python
-
uninstall current pip:
python -m pip uninstall pip setuptools
-
download
get-pip.py
from https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py -
execute get-pip script:
python get-pip.py
Solution 2 - Python
This worked for me:
easy_install --upgrade pip
Windows 10, Python 3.6
Solution 3 - Python
I will add the solution which worked for me here, in case someone is not able to solve their issue using the above approaches. Open Terminal
or Command prompt
or Anaconda prompt
and follow the 3 steps :
Step 1
Enter python -m pip uninstall pip
Step 2
python -m ensurepip
Step 3
python -m pip install -U pip
The pip version can easily be checked using pip --version
. Hope this works for you :)
Solution 4 - Python
Try uninstalling pip and installing get-pip.py. It appears to be a bug in the 3.6 version for Windows. https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/3964
It's also reported here. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39552710/pip-install-jupyter-unable-to-locate-finder-for-pip-vendor-distlib
Solution 5 - Python
Since Windows now ships with curl
by default, this one-liner works:
pip uninstall pip setuptools && curl -s https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py | python