Assistance Request - Issue with Installing 'pip' despite Python 3.10 Installation

[Dennis Lee Bieber]

On Sat, 10 Jun 2023 11:32:53 -0500, Eryk Sun <eryksun at gmail.com> declaimed
the following:

>On 6/10/23, Thomas Passin via Python-list <python-list at python.org> wrote:
>>
>> We can find pip.exe using good old-fashioned dir (we don't need any
>> new-fangled Powershell):
>>
>> C:\Users\tom>dir AppData\Local\Programs\Python /Aa /S /W /B |find
>> "pip"|find "Scripts"
>
>CMD's `dir` and `for` commands support simple wildcard matching. For
>example, the following recursively searches for a file named
>"pip*.exe" under "%ProgramFiles%\Python311":
>

	So far we've had examples of Python installed for current user, and
Python installed for all users /in Program Files/.

	My install is for all users, but is in a top-level directory of its own
(Program Files causes problems when using pip and not remembering to open
an Admin shell).

>    C:\>dir /b /s "%ProgramFiles%\Python311\pip*.exe"

	So... Here are the results on my machine searching ALL of C:\

C:\Users\Owner>dir /b /s c:\pip*.exe
c:\Apps\ADW Software Modula-2\ASCII\pipedexec.exe
c:\Apps\ADW Software Modula-2\Unicode\pipedexec.exe
c:\GNAT\2019\share\gdb-8.3\python-2.7.16\Scripts\pip.exe
c:\GNAT\2019\share\gdb-8.3\python-2.7.16\Scripts\pip2.7.exe
c:\GNAT\2019\share\gdb-8.3\python-2.7.16\Scripts\pip2.exe
c:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\ink\pipanel.exe
c:\ProgramData\{F87E77CE-BAA2-49E1-AAE3-1F6B2704ABAA}\OFFLINE\8AFA5EE\A9DCCED0\Pipe.exe
c:\Users\All
Users\{F87E77CE-BAA2-49E1-AAE3-1F6B2704ABAA}\OFFLINE\8AFA5EE\A9DCCED0\Pipe.exe
c:\Users\Owner\AppData\Local\python\mu\mu_venv-38-20230331-155858\Scripts\pip-3.8.exe
c:\Users\Owner\AppData\Local\python\mu\mu_venv-38-20230331-155858\Scripts\pip.exe
c:\Users\Owner\AppData\Local\python\mu\mu_venv-38-20230331-155858\Scripts\pip3.8.exe
c:\Users\Owner\AppData\Local\python\mu\mu_venv-38-20230331-155858\Scripts\pip3.exe
c:\Users\Public\Programs\mblock\resources\app\mlink-v2\exec\python-env\win\Scripts\pip.exe
c:\Users\Public\Programs\mblock\resources\app\mlink-v2\exec\python-env\win\Scripts\pip3.6.exe
c:\Users\Public\Programs\mblock\resources\app\mlink-v2\exec\python-env\win\Scripts\pip3.exe
c:\Windows\WinSxS\wow64_microsoft-windows-t..acyinkingcomponents_31bf3856ad364e35_10.0.19041.1_none_023783a15d5391a7\pipanel.exe

C:\Users\Owner>

	GNAT was the last AdaCore/Libre build that included the GPS IDE (I
believe AdaCore still does periodic source code releases of GPS to Linux,
putting the effort to get it working on the Linux distributions -- but that
doesn't help for Windows). Mu is an overly simplistic Python editor pushed
by AdaFruit as it is CircuitPython board-aware. MBlock is a graphical
(drag&drop code templates, fill in any parameters) which I have for an
Arduino-powered robot vehicle.

	NO pip*.exe anywhere for Python 3.10 -- and as I stated earlier in the
thread, I even ran the Python Org installer python-3.10.11-amd64.exe in
/repair/ mode; though if that just spawns off ensurepip the result does not
repair anything, as ensurepip finds the library module valid. (Maybe I
should rename the module to junk, and try again? *)

C:\Users\Owner>dir c:\p*
 Volume in drive C is Sys_OS
 Volume Serial Number is B650-6F92

 Directory of c:\

12/07/2019  05:14 AM    <DIR>          PerfLogs
05/16/2023  04:37 PM    <DIR>          Program Files
05/16/2023  04:37 PM    <DIR>          Program Files (x86)
04/26/2023  03:16 PM    <DIR>          ProgramData
01/01/2017  04:28 PM    <DIR>          PSFONTS
02/11/2020  02:50 PM    <DIR>          PSFONTS_Converted
06/08/2023  03:01 PM    <DIR>          Python310
               0 File(s)              0 bytes
               7 Dir(s)  1,881,417,326,592 bytes free



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*	What a pain... Just renaming Lib\site-packages\pip =>
Lib\site-packages\pip-junk (and similar for the dist-info file) still had
ensurepip locating it. I had to /delete/ those files completely before
ensurepip would do any processing.

C:\Users\Owner>python -m ensurepip
Looking in links: c:\Users\Owner\AppData\Local\Temp\tmpfof5ikfr
Requirement already satisfied: setuptools in c:\python310\lib\site-packages
(67.6.1)
Requirement already satisfied: pip in c:\python310\lib\site-packages (junk)

C:\Users\Owner>python -m ensurepip
Looking in links: c:\Users\Owner\AppData\Local\Temp\tmpwtielpq_
Requirement already satisfied: setuptools in c:\python310\lib\site-packages
(67.6.1)
Processing
c:\users\owner\appdata\local\temp\tmpwtielpq_\pip-23.0.1-py3-none-any.whl
Installing collected packages: pip
Successfully installed pip-23.0.1

That finally installed 

C:\Users\Owner>where pip*
C:\Python310\Scripts\pip3.10.exe
C:\Python310\Scripts\pip3.exe

(NO pip.exe, however).