module 'pip' has no attribute 'pep425tags'

Question

When I am trying to install .whl with pip

it said:

is not a supported wheel on this platform

to solve this problem, I

Answer 1

I have several versions of Python in my GNU-Linux machine and this causes some problems for me. Python 2.7, 3.4, 3.6, ...

Too messy! I know. :)

Each time I used python3 and run this code:

import wheel.pep425tags
print(wheel.pep425tags.get_supported())

As yours, I confronted with this error too:

AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'pep425tags'

By surfing inside stackoverflow I noticed some problems as below that may help you:

It's important to know your pip or pip3 is set to which version of Pythons: My mine, pip is set to python 2.7 and pip3 is also set to python 3.6.

First of all, check the version of your pip or pip3:

pip -V

or

pip3 -V

As I use pip3 so it results:

pip 20.0.2 from /usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pip (python 3.6)

This shows that my pip3 uses python3.6 and this causes me straightly go inside the python3.6 console. In this case it works and results:

[('cp36', 'cp36m', 'linux_x86_64'), ('cp36', 'abi3', 'linux_x86_64'), ('cp36', 'none', 'linux_x86_64'), ('cp35', 'abi3', 'linux_x86_64'), ('cp34', 'abi3', 'linux_x86_64'), ('cp36', 'none', 'any'), ('cp3', 'none', 'any'), ('cp35', 'none', 'any'), ('cp34', 'none', 'any'), ('cp33', 'none', 'any'), ...]

I hope these steps works for you.