DistributionNotFound error after upgrading pip

Question

In reading about virtualenv here I realized I didn\'t have pip 1.3+, so I ran pip install --upgrade pip and now when I run pip --version i get the

Answer 1

As an aside, there's an easier way to do it (I just encountered this).

Edit /usr/local/bin/pip and change the references to version number (so below you'd want to change '1.5.6' to whatever version number you're using):

#!/usr/local/opt/python/bin/python2.7
# EASY-INSTALL-ENTRY-SCRIPT: 'pip==1.5.6','console_scripts','pip'
__requires__ = 'pip==1.5.6'
import sys
from pkg_resources import load_entry_point

if __name__ == '__main__':
    sys.exit(
        load_entry_point('pip==1.5.6', 'console_scripts', 'pip')()
    )

then you may be completely good at that point.