pip refuses to upgrade

Question

I currently have installed pip 8.1.2.

So I want to upgrade it to the latest version (9.0.1) and I execute:

sudo pip install --upgrade pip


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Answer 1

Had a similar issue with pip not wishing to upgrade, though I'm not keen on replacing the package manager's version and as I'm always adding the --user option on installations via pip I figured "what's the harm?" in doing the same with pip on itself.

pip install --user --upgrade pip

It'll only work for one user but for some use cases that is just peachy.