get-pip.py script not compatible with Python 3.7
fti-sfuke opened this issue · 4 comments
Description:
When attempting to install pip using the get-pip.py script from https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py on a system running Python 3.7, an error message is displayed indicating that the script requires a minimum Python version of 3.8.
Error Message:
ERROR: This script does not work on Python 3.7 The minimum supported Python version is 3.8
Steps to reproduce
# wget -q --timeout 10 -O /tmp/get-pip.py https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py
# python3 /tmp/get-pip.py
----------------------------------------
ERROR: This script does not work on Python 3.7 The minimum supported Python version is 3.8. Please use https://bootstrap.pypa.io/pip/3.7/get-pip.py instead.
Environment:
Python version:
#python3 --version
Python 3.7.3
OS Details:
Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)
Kernel Version :
# uname -a
Linux DEB-NUC8i3BE-G6Bxx 5.10.0-0.deb10.16-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.127-2~bpo10+1 (2022-07-28) x86_64 GNU/Linux
@fti-sfuke Hi.
This is expected - Python 3.7 is EOL and so the latest version of Pip doesn't support it.
Please read the error message, which explains pretty clearly how to avoid it:
ERROR: This script does not work on Python 3.7 The minimum supported Python version is 3.8.
Please use https://bootstrap.pypa.io/pip/3.7/get-pip.py instead.
@edmorley
Thanks for the update. Apologies for the oversight. I didn't read the complete error message.
I was able to fix the issue by changing the URL from https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py to https://bootstrap.pypa.io/pip/3.7/get-pip.py.
Is my understanding correct that now https://bootstrap.pypa.io/pip/get-pip.py only supports Python 3.8 and above, and for older versions like 3.7, you have categorized the get-pip.py based on the Python version?
Example :
https://bootstrap.pypa.io/pip/3.7/get-pip.py
https://bootstrap.pypa.io/pip/3.6/get-pip.py
https://bootstrap.pypa.io/pip/3.5/get-pip.py
Yeah that's correct :-)