pip no longer working after update error 'module' object is not callable

Question

After a pip update, pip has stopped working completely.

Z:\\>pip install matplotlib
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File \"c:\\program files\\python3         


        

Answer 1

All credit for this goes to user han_solo, who left the answer as a comment, instead of as an answer:

Instead of pip install stdlib_list --user

use python -m pip install stdlib_list --user

Replace stdlib_list with matplotlib or whatever the name is of the package you want.