Different error messages when using pip install, pip list ect

Question

I was attempting to fix another issue when i tried to do pip uninstall scikit-learn After doing that I received red text such as:

pip install          


        

Answer 1

A similar problem is addressed in this Issue on the pip GitHub repository.

The recommendation in your case would be to go into

c:\users\james\appdata\local\programs\python\python37\lib\site-packages

and, for each folder that starts with "-", delete it and reinstall the corresponding package.