How to upgrade disutils package PyYAML?

Question

I was trying to install chatterbot which has a dependency on PyYAML=3.12. In my Ubuntu machine installed PyYAML version is

Answer 1

I have had a similar issue where the PyYAML package was installed by conda. There is another answer to use conda remove.

Instead I have got round this issue using conda update PyYAML, effectively using conda to update the dependency which pip is trying itself to update.