Solve ImportError: cannot import name IncompleteRead


When doing “pip install -r requirement.txt”, suddenly i got this erros out of nowhere. Fyi, I’m suspecting upgrade “requests” module may cause this issue.

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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/pip", line 9, in <module>
    load_entry_point(‘pip==1.5.4’, ‘console_scripts’, ‘pip’)()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 351, in load_entry_point
    return get_distribution(dist).load_entry_point(group, name)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 2363, in load_entry_point
    return ep.load()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 2088, in load
    entry = __import__(self.module_name, globals(),globals(), [‘__name__’])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/__init__.py", line 11, in <module>
    from pip.vcs import git, mercurial, subversion, bazaar  # noqa
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/vcs/mercurial.py", line 9, in <module>
    from pip.download import path_to_url
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/download.py", line 25, in <module>
    from requests.compat import IncompleteRead
ImportError: cannot import name IncompleteRead

The solution is :

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sudo apt-get remove python-pip
wget https://raw.github.com/pypa/pip/master/contrib/get-pip.py
sudo python get-pip.py

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