unable to upgrade the pip version

try:
python -m pip install -U --force-reinstall pip
inside your venv

https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/5820#issuecomment-428611054

As stated in the comments above, PyCharm uses it's own bundled pip, so upgrading the pip from outside of PyCharm and then creating a new project might not have an effect. 

Have you tried to open terminal inside your project in PyCharm (the terminal prompt should display the name of your activated venv) and executing there:

python -m pip install -U --force-reinstall pip

...?

I have the same issue - can't figure out where PyCharm gets this version, but every time I have PyCharm create the new venv, it comes with an old version of pip (10.0.1). This is in spite of pip having been upgrades for all versions of Python I'm aware of on my system, pip caches having been cleared and PyCharm being fully up to date.

If anyone has a clue, I'd love to hear it.

Ah, that kind of makes sense then. Not sure I understand the why, but I can imagine a few reasons. Hope to see the update come through soon. Thanks for providing the unambiguous feedback.

I love how convenient PyCharm makes starting a new project and a matching venv, but it'd be even nicer if it picked up the tools and packages from a Python version I select to base it off of. I'd be absolutely OK with that not being the default setting, but it'd be an option I'd try.

Is this worth submitting as a feature request somewhere? Or does it stand about as much of a chance as a snowball in hell?

There is already such feature. When you create a new virtual environment there is a checkbox "Inherit global site-packages".

Or do I miss something?

Using 'Inherit global site-packages' works around the issue in that it doesn't provide a new copy of pip and thus the globally available pip is used.

However, if I base a new virtualenv off of another version of Python that is installed on my system, this creates a problem: the version of pip doesn't match the version of Python I am using.

For example, I have Python 2.7.14, 3.6.6 and 3.7.0 currently installed - all with an up to date of their relevant pip copy. 3.7 is the default and on the path. If I create a new virtual environment using PyCharm and base it on the 3.6 version (with 'Inherit global site-packages'), I get a new environment that has the 3.6 interpreter, but running pip will still execute the globally available one for 3.7.

So, it is currently not a solution for my issue.

I tried @smailzhu's suggestion, and that fixes the problem, although I still think PyCharm should create a copy of the pip for the Base interpreter instead of its own aged copy. Note: only if run directly from the Scripts folder inside the venv, just activating the venv is not enough, the command has to be issued with the Scripts directory as the working directory.

Nothing seems to work for me either.  I have upgraded both PIP and SetupTools in two different locations that I thought PyCharm is using to create new venvs.  The upgrades via command line were successful.  I can see them under Project Interpreters area of the Settings screen.  I can select both flavors and see that they are updated too.   For some reason the new project was created with the outdated packages after trying all of those steps.   This shouldn't be that hard to solve.

This command does work but it only upgrades the current virtual environment.  

python.exe -m pip install -U --force-reinstall pip

It appears that the version of PIP used when creating new virtual environments is an older version.   It appears that this is a known "feature" of PyCharm and that a future release at some point will address this and a new PIP will be available for new venvs moving forward.   Right now it appears that you must update PIP and SetupTools for each new venv/project you create at this time.

EDIT:

I have changed 10.0.1 to 18.0 in 'C:\Folder\To\Project\venv\Scripts' in the files called pip-script.py, pip3-script.py, and pip3.6-script.py. This seems to now have the right version,

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I have this exact same problem.

In pycharm, everytime I go to the terminal window, and maybe type "pip search <package>" I keep getting told I'm using version 10.0.1.

the annoying thing is I've run 'python -m pip install --upgrade pip". and in File -> Settings -> Project:projectName -> Project Inspector it shows I have version 18 installed for this virtual environment.

The rest of my system uses the latest version of Pip, it's only when I create new projects+venv in pyCharm that this problem arises.

Hi,

PyCharm has its own bundled pip. But as far as I know we are going to update it in a future release.

Kind regards,

Sergey

Please feel free to submit a feature request about it to our issue tracker using the link https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issues/PY and let us know if you need any help.

Thanks, Andrey. --force-reinstall works for me.

thank you andrey resler

I had this problem today (14/3/2019).

smailzhu's suggestion:

python.exe -m pip install -U --force-reinstall pip

worked for me.

Thank you @Andrey Resler

Try reinstalling using curl and the path to wichever pip you are trying to upgrade

curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py | c:\users\Me\pycharmprojects\vbaproject\venv\lib\site-packages\pip-10.0.1-py3.7.egg\pip (python 3.7)

Cheers

python -m pip install -U --force-reinstall pip