Why is there a pip package in pip?

Question

So I was looking through PyPI and I found this: https://pypi.org/project/pip/ What is the reason for this? Why does this exist, and why would it be useful?? Isnt it kinda recursive in a way?

Answer 1

Why is there a pip package in pip?

I think you're conflating the following two tools:

• PyPI (https://pypi.org) is a repository for hosting Python packages
• pip (https://pypi.org/p/pip) is an installer that downloads packages from PyPI

Answer 2

pip can update itself to a newer version and has a bootstrapper called get-pip.py to install it for the first time. Since recent Python versions have it pre-installed, upgrading is usually all that is needed to get the latest version of pip.

See https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/installing.