Python pip broken after OS X 10.8 upgrade

Question

Made the upgrade to Mac OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) and get now the following error when trying to call $ pip:

Traceback (most recent call last):
         


        

Answer 1

I changed the permissions for Python folder (from root to my user), and now everything work for me:

sudo chown -R :wheel /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/

Not recommended for machines with multiple users.