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
This helps me, https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/installing/
curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py -o get-pip.py python get-pip.py
If you are using python3 and not set it default. do this,
python3 get-pip.py
It works for me.