How to downgrade the installed version of 'pip' on windows?

Question

On a windows 7 machine I have pip version 1.5.6 installed:

pip 1.5.6 from C:\\Users\\dietz\\PNC\\tas\\ENV\\lib\\site-packages (python 2.7)


        

Answer 1

pip itself is just a normal python package. Thus you can install pip with pip.

Of cource, you don't want to affect the system's pip, install it inside a virtualenv.

pip install pip==1.2.1

Answer 2

If downgrading from pip version 10 because of PyCharm manage.py or other python errors:

python -m pip install pip==9.0.1