get-pip.py script not compatible with Python 3.7

[fti-sfuke]

Description:

When attempting to install pip using the get-pip.py script from https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py on a system running Python 3.7, an error message is displayed indicating that the script requires a minimum Python version of 3.8.

Error Message:

ERROR: This script does not work on Python 3.7 The minimum supported Python version is 3.8

Steps to reproduce

# wget  -q --timeout 10 -O /tmp/get-pip.py https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py

# python3 /tmp/get-pip.py
----------------------------------------
ERROR: This script does not work on Python 3.7 The minimum supported Python version is 3.8. Please use https://bootstrap.pypa.io/pip/3.7/get-pip.py instead.

Environment:

Python version:

#python3 --version
Python 3.7.3

OS Details:

Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)

Kernel Version :

# uname -a
Linux DEB-NUC8i3BE-G6Bxx 5.10.0-0.deb10.16-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.127-2~bpo10+1 (2022-07-28) x86_64 GNU/Linux

[edmorley]

@fti-sfuke Hi.

This is expected - Python 3.7 is EOL and so the latest version of Pip doesn't support it.

Please read the error message, which explains pretty clearly how to avoid it:

ERROR: This script does not work on Python 3.7 The minimum supported Python version is 3.8. 
Please use https://bootstrap.pypa.io/pip/3.7/get-pip.py instead.

[fti-sfuke]

@edmorley Thanks for the update. Apologies for the oversight. I didn't read the complete error message.

I was able to fix the issue by changing the URL from https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py to https://bootstrap.pypa.io/pip/3.7/get-pip.py.

Is my understanding correct that now https://bootstrap.pypa.io/pip/get-pip.py only supports Python 3.8 and above, and for older versions like 3.7, you have categorized the get-pip.py based on the Python version? Example : https://bootstrap.pypa.io/pip/3.7/get-pip.py https://bootstrap.pypa.io/pip/3.6/get-pip.py https://bootstrap.pypa.io/pip/3.5/get-pip.py

[edmorley]

Yeah that's correct :-)

[fti-sfuke]

@edmorley Thank you for confirming. I am closing this issue now.