PIP module has no attribute “main”

Question

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Answer 1

they made a refactoring. you can support both 9 and 10 pip by using:

try:
    from pip import main as pipmain
except:
    from pip._internal.main import main as pipmain

and then use pipmain as you used pip.main. for example

pipmain(['install', "--upgrade", "pip"])
pipmain(['install', "-q", "package"])