AttributeError: Module Pip has no attribute 'main'

Question

I am trying to build the python api for an open source project called Zulip and I keep running into the same issue as indicated by the screenshot below.

I am running

Answer 1

It appears that pip did a refactor and moved main to internal. There is a comprehensive discussion about it here: https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/5240

A workaround for me was to change

import pip
pip.main(...)

to

from pip._internal import main
main(...)

I recommend reading through the discussion, I'm not sure this is the best approach, but it worked for my purposes.