upgrade of pip on my python 2.7 version

[Zuri Shaddai Kuchipudi]

On Wednesday, 27 September 2023 at 21:32:53 UTC+2, Mats Wichmann wrote:
> On 9/27/23 05:17, Zuri Shaddai Kuchipudi via Python-list wrote: 
> > hello everyone this the error that im getting while trying to install and upgrade pip on what is the solution for it? 
> > 
> > C:\repository\pst-utils-pc-davinci-simulator>pip install 
> > You are using pip version 7.0.1, however version 23.2.1 is available. 
> > You should consider upgrading via the 'pip install --upgrade pip' command. 
> > You must give at least one requirement to install (see "pip help install") 
> > 
> > C:\repository\pst-utils-pc-davinci-simulator>pip install --upgrade pip 
> > You are using pip version 7.0.1, however version 23.2.1 is available. 
> > You should consider upgrading via the 'pip install --upgrade pip' command. 
> > Collecting pip 
> > Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/ba/19/e63fb4e0d20e48bd2167bb7e857abc0e21679e24805ba921a224df8977c0/pip-23.2.1.tar.gz 
> > Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info: 
> > Traceback (most recent call last): 
> > File "<string>", line 20, in <module> 
> > File "c:\users\kuchipz\appdata\local\temp\pip-build-gc4ekm\pip\setup.py", line 7 
> > def read(rel_path: str) -> str: 
> > ^ 
> > SyntaxError: invalid syntax
> PyPI *should* be returning a compatible version of pip to upgrade to. 
> pip itself has long since dropped support for 2.7, and the version 
> you're trying to force is pretty clear: 
> 
> pip 23.2.1 
> 
> Meta 
> License: MIT License (MIT) 
> Author: The pip developers 
> Requires: Python >=3.7 
> ... 
> Classifiers 
> Development Status 
> 5 - Production/Stable 
> Intended Audience 
> Developers 
> License 
> OSI Approved :: MIT License 
> Programming Language 
> Python 
> Python :: 3 
> Python :: 3 :: Only 
> ... 
> 
> So "don't do that". 
> 
> Why it's trying to select an incompatible version when you ask to 
> upgrade is not something I'd like to speculate on, for me personally 
> that's a surprise. Maybe something else you did before? 
> 
> Also make sure you're using a pip that matches your Python. It's usually 
> safer if you invoke it as: 
> 
> python -m pip install --upgrade pip 
> 
> (or whatever the precise name of your Python 2 interpreter actually is)
the code that i want to run and all the libraries are written for python 2 but i have seen a video where the person showed the 2to3 pip method in which it rewrites the code in python 3 and shows all the necessary changes.