Message10784

The problem was caused by pip directory in the directory where I executed these commands. Jython apparently imported it as a pip module and that broke everything. I know Jython imports directories without __init__.py as modules to support Java packages, but this wasn't the first time an accidentally matching directory caused problems.

Both `jython -m pip` and `pip` worked fine after removing the offending directory. This issue can be closed.

Notice that the directory only had an old `pip.log` file. Apparently it was created by some pip version at some point.