PIP module has no attribute “main”

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Answer 1

For more recent versions of pip (pip>=10.0.0), the functionality described in the other answers will no longer work. I recommend running the pip with subprocess as follows:

import subprocess
import sys

my_path = 
command_list = [sys.executable, "-m", "pip", "install", my_path]
with subprocess.Popen(command_list, stdout=subprocess.PIPE) as proc:
    print(proc.stdout.read())

This solution uses the current python executable to run the pip command as a commandline command. It was inspired by the solution mentioned here.