🔒 pip install pytest failure

[muted sage]

Message was too long with the fill error, so I attached the error as a text file.

pip --version returns pip 24.3.1 from /home/dev/PythonVenvs/bash/lib64/python3.14/site-packages/pip (python 3.14), so I know it's installed in the venv I'm using. To be sure I ran $ sudo dnf install python3-pip, and tried to install pytest in my active venv, and got the same error as above.

What do I do to fix this?

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[ripe gust]

@muted sage do you have ca-certificates installed?

[muted sage]

(bash) dev@DrKnow4:~$ ca-certificates --version
bash: ca-certificates: command not found...
(bash) dev@DrKnow4:~$ ca-certificates --help
bash: ca-certificates: command not found...

[ripe gust]

which OS are you using?

[winged peak]

Did you use a venv? If not:

1. Create your venv if you don't have a venv already (python3 -m venv .venv)
2. Activate the venv if you didn't activate it already (source .venv/bin/activate)
3. Install the packages you need (python3 -m pip install ...)
4. Run your code (python3 my_script.py)

[ripe gust]

he did, the error comes from requests

[ripe gust]

File "/home/dev/PythonVenvs/bash/lib64/python3.14/site-packages/pip/_vendor/requests/adapters.py", line 81, in <module>
    _preloaded_ssl_context.load_verify_locations(
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^
        extract_zipped_paths(DEFAULT_CA_BUNDLE_PATH)
        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    )
    ^
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory

[winged peak]

I'm concerned because of the $ pip install pytest though

Cause he also says he ran $ sudo dnf install python3-pip which you usually don't need to do (if you want to run pip through a venv)

[muted sage]

Yes, I'm in a venv called bash. It's showing as active in my terminal:
(bash) dev@DrKnow4:~$

[muted sage]

Fedora 44

[ripe gust]

@muted sage what is the pip --version?

https://github.com/psf/requests/issues/6749

This used to be a bug in requests, which is solved by running pip install certifi first. but that doesn't exists anymore in the newer versions

[muted sage]

$ pip --version
pip 24.3.1 from /home/dev/PythonVenvs/bash/lib64/python3.14/site-packages/pip (python 3.14)

[ripe gust]

yup, a version that was released on 2024.10.27 🫠

[muted sage]

Oh geeze. Does that mean I run pip install certifi?

[ripe gust]

please run: pip install --upgrade pip setuptools wheel first

[ripe gust]

nah

[ripe gust]

inside the venv

[muted sage]

Same error as trying to install pytest

[ripe gust]

ugh

hmmmm, can you do pip install --upgrade pip --force-reinstall @muted sage

[muted sage]

Same error again.

[ripe gust]

try appending --no-cache-dir

[muted sage]

Same error

[ripe gust]

@muted sage can you delete python3-pip, and switch to uv?

that would be the easiest

[muted sage]

Would that be pip uninstall pip, then python3 install uv?

Wait no I found the curl command

[ripe gust]

you can download uv from you package manager, although I'm worried it will be outdated too

[muted sage]

pip uninstall pip isn't working, gives a long error message

Got fed up and created a bash2 venv. Guess what just installed successfully?

(bash2) dev@DrKnow4:~$ pytest --version
pytest 9.0.3

🫠

[ripe gust]

@muted sage was the first venv created a long time ago?

[muted sage]

Yes, prior to Fedroa 43 -> 44 upgrade, but I don't remember eactly when.

[ripe gust]

that was the issue...

it had a super outdated pip version:/

use uv, you'll thank your past self

[muted sage]

Will have to look into that. Thanks!

Followup question: is unittest included in python3 by default? I can't seem to get a version when I run unittest --verion

[muted sage]

$ pip install unittest
ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement unittest (from versions: none)
ERROR: No matching distribution found for unittest

[ripe gust]

unittest is a builtin, why try to install it?

[muted sage]

Ah, gotcha

[ripe gust]

it's already included, just do import unittest

[muted sage]

Thank you so much

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