Error When Running 'pip Install -r Requirements.txt --upgrade'

When i run following command in my Django project: pip install -r requirements.txt --upgrade I get following error: Detected a distutils installed project ('argparse') which we

Solution 1:

This sounds very much like you are hitting https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/3384 - the temporary solution is to pin pip<8

Solution 2:

If you're using a virtualenv, this shouldn't happen,if it does, then here is a similar question to your problem.

OS X Uninstall a distutils installed project

If you do remove the argparse package, it can be installed again using pip.

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