On: Pip has dropped support for Python 2

[mikepurvis]

It's supported until the end of April. Obviously we're in the process of migrating things, but it's either supported or it's not, and as long as it's supported, it should work.

[dragonwriter → mikepurvis]

It probably would work if you didn't subvert it by trying to use the latest and greatest pip from pyPI instead of the OS python-pip package.

[mikepurvis → dragonwriter]

Using the latest pip is the will of the PyPA, and they let you know this on every invocation that touches the network:

    You are using pip version 8.1.1, however version 21.0.1 is available.
    You should consider upgrading via the 'pip install --upgrade pip' command.

There are also packages and workflows which break on the older pips, and this has been justified on the basis that everyone can always just use the latest.