I ran the following commands:
easy_install pip
sudo pip install setuptools --no-use-wheel --upgrade
How do I reverse the two commands to get my python back to its original state in OSX? (removing pip as part of it)
The first thing you should try is:
sudo pip uninstall pip
On many environments that doesn't work. So given the lack of info on that problem, I ended up removing pip manually from /usr/local/bin.