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Solution to Python 3 pip ImportError: cannot import name 'sysconfig' Error

If you receive the following error while installing pip with Python 3, the reason for the error is that the distutils package is not installed.

sudo apt install -y python3-distutils

We can fix the error by installing the distutils package with the following command.

curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py -o get-pip.py; python3.6 get-pip.py

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