get-pip.py broken on Windows 10

Question

Get Pip (Python file from Pypa.io) on Windows 10 is not extracting on my laptop. I followed all the instructions on pypa.io - Installing, however, when I tried to execute the file, despite many attempts to fix this, it says:

ERROR: To modify pip, please run the following command: C:\Python27\python.exe -m pip  

So I ran C:\Python27\python.exe -m pip and then it shows another error message:

C:\Python27\python.exe: No module named pip  

I then consulted with a friend of mine, and he said that the second error message is obviously not a file error, but (me reflecting now) is quite logical. Of course it says that there is no module named pip because that was the very thing that I am trying to download. Then it occurred to me that Python must think that I already have it because it is asking me to modify pip. So I looked into this and saw that I had a pip folder but nothing inside it to do with Python.

So this made me think Why is it not downloading? or Why does it think that I already have it?

UPDATE

The Python installer now comes with an option to install pip which should solve any further problems!

Answer 1

Pretty sure that I had the exact same problem as you. I am using Python 2.7.14 64-bit, and when I try to install pip using get-pip.py, I get the exact same error.

I fixed this by simply running the following command:

python -m ensurepip --default-pip

This then installed pip. This is because the version of Python I downloaded is packaged with pip.

Note that this installed pip without the wheel portion, so I then had to run:

python -m pip install --upgrade pip setuptools wheel

After that, everything was ready to go.

Answer 2

I just stumbled upon this very same issue. However, I am using (have to) Python 2.7.8 32-bit.

https://pip.pypa.io/en/latest/installing/ clearly states that

pip is already installed if you are using Python 2 >=2.7.9 or Python 3 >=3.4 downloaded from python.org

so that my call to python -m ensurepip --default-pip did in fact result in No module named ensurepip (as I am not using >=2.7.9).

Yet I was finally able to get pip running: instead of using the latest get-pip.py at https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py I used https://bootstrap.pypa.io/2.6/get-pip.py.

For future reference, and those who want to compare against any version of get-pip.py in https://github.com/pypa/get-pip:

29af88001263a19911c0911057cc192e  ./get-pip.py      did *not* work for me,
e4bd67ad4de5329bd4291e06ee3ba012  ./2.6/get-pip.py  *did* work for me.