How do you remove pip from a pc if you installed by "get-pip.py"

[DoTheEvo]

removing, uninstalling pip
get-pip.py from here
Cant find anything on this subject.
Might be helpful for the documentation as well

[Ivoz]

python -m pip uninstall pip setuptools

[DoTheEvo]

Thank you

[buggedcom]

This may also be handy if coming here looking to uninstall pip and all packages installed by pip

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11248073/what-is-the-easiest-way-to-remove-all-packages-installed-by-pip

Goes without saying that you should run the commands in the above link before running the command in this issue.

[CyberMew]

pip uninstall pip

[jonathanpmartins]

And if is pip is broken? Can I remove some folders and reinstall it?

[xavfernandez]

How is it broken ? python -m pip.__main__ does not work ?

You could download https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py and run python get-pip.py --ignore-installed to reinstall pip.

[jonathanpmartins]

No, nothing work. The only way was delete the /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages folder, and then try python get-pip.py again. But in my case I am installing all packages again. Thanks for the tip! Next time I try it before run rm -rfstuff... this time was too late, hhehehehe

[arpitrohela]

@jonathanpmartins Yeah,site-package removal method worked for me too.my pip was broken somehow and get-pip kept saying that pip is already installed instead of doing a fresh installation,Only when the folder was removed the get-pip allowed to reinstall the pip from scratch. This method works when I can't go for 'pip uninstall pip' since pip was said to be installed by get-pip.py but broke,so how could I use pip to uninstall pip.
This was the only option I was left with.