Just use the pip3 command you already have:

Copypip3 install --upgrade pip

The installed project is called pip, always. The pip3 command is tied to your Python 3 installation and is an alias for pip, but the latter is shadowed by the pip command in your Python 2 setup.

You can do it with the associated Python binary too; if it executable as python3, then use that:

Copypython3 -m pip install --upgrade pip

Again, the project is called pip, and so is the module that is installed into your site-packages directory, so stick to that name for the -m command-line option and for the install command.

Answer from Martijn Pieters on Stack Overflow
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