pip throws TypeError: parse() got an unexpected keyword argument 'transport_encoding' when trying to install new packages

Question

I am using the latest version of Anaconda3. I just installed it and I am trying to download some packages. I am using the Anaconda Prompt. While trying to use pip to do anyt

Answer 1

Here was the fix for me:

cd /usr/share/python-wheels/

Contents of dir:

-rwxrwxrwx   1 www-data www-data 493905 Jul 22  2015 html5lib-0.999-py2.py3-none-any.whl
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root     112620 Apr  3  2019 html5lib-0.999999999-py2.py3-none-any.whl

Run:

mv html5lib-0.999-py2.py3-none-any.whl html5lib-0.999-py2.py3-none-any.whl.bak

pip3 works fine after. Was loading the old 0.999 version.