pip install --upgrade pip fails with "SyntaxError: invalid syntax"
Issue
[root@r7 ~]$ pip install --upgrade pip
Collecting pip
Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/f8/08/7f92782ff571c7c7cb6c5eeb8ebbb1f68cb02bdb24e55c5de4dd9ce98bc3/pip-22.3.tar.gz
Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
File "/tmp/pip-build-b91mTG/pip/setup.py", line 7
def read(rel_path: str) -> str:
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
----------------------------------------
Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build-b91mTG/pip/
You are using pip version 8.1.2, however version 22.3 is available.
You should consider upgrading via the 'pip install --upgrade pip' command.
Environment
pip2
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
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