ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pip._internal' solution python

pip3 install requests
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/user/.local/bin/pip3", line 7, in <module>
    from pip._internal.cli.main import main
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pip._internal'

As a quick and temp fix call the OS installed python and not the user .local/bin installed pip3

/usr/bin/pip3 install requests
Collecting requests
  Cache entry deserialization failed, entry ignored
  Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/2d/61/08076519c80041bc0ffa1a8af0cbd3bf3e2b62af10435d269a9d0f40564d/requests-2.27.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl (63kB)
    100% |████████████████████████████████| 71kB 5.1MB/s
Collecting idna<4,>=2.5; python_version >= "3" (from requests)
  Cache entry deserialization failed, entry ignored
  Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/fc/34/3030de6f1370931b9dbb4dad48f6ab1015ab1d32447850b9fc94e60097be/idna-3.4-py3-none-any.whl (61kB)
    100% |████████████████████████████████| 71kB 7.3MB/s
Collecting certifi>=2017.4.17 (from requests)
  Cache entry deserialization failed, entry ignored
  Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/1d/38/fa96a426e0c0e68aabc68e896584b83ad1eec779265a028e156ce509630e/certifi-2022.9.24-py3-none-any.whl (161kB)
    100% |████████████████████████████████| 163kB 4.3MB/s
Collecting urllib3<1.27,>=1.21.1 (from requests)
  Cache entry deserialization failed, entry ignored
  Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/6f/de/5be2e3eed8426f871b170663333a0f627fc2924cc386cd41be065e7ea870/urllib3-1.26.12-py2.py3-none-any.whl (140kB)
    100% |████████████████████████████████| 143kB 5.1MB/s
Collecting charset-normalizer~=2.0.0; python_version >= "3" (from requests)
  Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/06/b3/24afc8868eba069a7f03650ac750a778862dc34941a4bebeb58706715726/charset_normalizer-2.0.12-py3-none-any.whl
Installing collected packages: idna, certifi, urllib3, charset-normalizer, requests
Successfully installed certifi-2022.9.24 charset-normalizer-2.0.12 idna-3.4 requests-2.27.1 urllib3-1.26.12
 


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