> IIRC, ensurepip by design doesn't go to the internet , so it will only
> ever upgrade to the version bundled with Python

Now I’m really confused — if pip is already bundled with Python, then
what is ensurepip for ?!?!

Or really, the question at hand: should a user starting from scratch
with a python.org install of 3.7 run ensurepip?

Or can they just go straight to:

Python3 -m pip install —upgrade pip

?!?

-CHB


> from the docs "To
> ensure the installed version of pip is *at least as recent as the one
> bundled with ensurepip*, pass the --upgrade option" [emphasis mine]).
> To get the latest available version, you should do `python -m pip
> install --upgrade pip` (better than `pip install...` as it works on
> Windows) as you mentioned.
>
> Paul
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