How to know the version of pip itself

Question

Which shell command gives me the actual version of pip I am using?

pip gives with pip show all version of modules that are installed but excludes itself.

Answer 1

On RHEL "pip -V" works :

$ pip -V
pip 6.1.1 from /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages (python 2.6)

Answer 2

For windows:

import pip

help(pip) 

shows the version at the end of the help file.

Answer 3

You can do this:

pip -V

or:

pip --version

Answer 4

First, open a command prompt After type a bellow commands.

check a version itself Easily :

Form Windows:

pip installation :

pip install pip

pip Version check:

pip --version 

Answer 5

check two things

pip2 --version and pip3 --version

because the default pip may be anyone of this so it is always better to check both.

Answer 6

Many people use both 2.X and 3.X python. You can use pip -V to show default pip version.
If you have many python versions, and you want to install some packages through different pip, I advise this way:

sudo python2.X -m pip install some-package==0.16