pip broken pkg

[lyelibi]

Hello,

for some reason pip3 doesn't work anymore. It seems to be a problem with multiple causes. After looking for a while, I would prefer to ask before I go down a rabbit hole lol.

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/raio/.local/bin/pip3", line 7, in
from pip import main
File "/home/raio/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/pip/init.py", line 26, in
from pip.utils import get_installed_distributions, get_prog
File "/home/raio/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/pip/utils/init.py", line 27, in
from pip._vendor import pkg_resources
File "/home/raio/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pkg_resources/init.py", line 3018, in
@_call_aside
File "/home/raio/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pkg_resources/init.py", line 3004, in _call_aside
f(*args, **kwargs)
File "/home/raio/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pkg_resources/init.py", line 3046, in _initialize_master_working_set
dist.activate(replace=False)
File "/home/raio/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pkg_resources/init.py", line 2578, in activate
declare_namespace(pkg)
File "/home/raio/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pkg_resources/init.py", line 2152, in declare_namespace
_handle_ns(packageName, path_item)
File "/home/raio/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pkg_resources/init.py", line 2092, in _handle_ns
_rebuild_mod_path(path, packageName, module)
File "/home/raio/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pkg_resources/init.py", line 2121, in _rebuild_mod_path
orig_path.sort(key=position_in_sys_path)
AttributeError: '_NamespacePath' object has no attribute 'sort'

can you assist?

[jaraco]

The issue is that one or more of your namespace packages installed in your environment was built with Setuptools prior to 31.0.1 and that pip hasn't been patched to work around the issue (pypa/pip#4216). Nothing we can do here.