pip install showing current version number as being installed

[LottieVixen]

• Pip version: 8.1.2
• Python version: Python 2.7.12+
• Operating system: Ubuntu 16.10 x86_64
• Kernal: 4.8.0-34-generic

Description:

pip install --upgrade pip outputs wrong answer of the current version not installed version.

What I've run:

$ pip install --upgrade pip
Collecting pip
  Downloading pip-9.0.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl (1.3MB)
    100% |████████████████████████████████| 1.3MB 173kB/s 
Installing collected packages: pip
Successfully installed pip-8.1.2
You are using pip version 8.1.2, however version 9.0.1 is available.
You should consider upgrading via the 'pip install --upgrade pip' command.

$ pip install --upgrade pip
Requirement already up-to-date: pip in ./.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages

$ pip -V
pip 9.0.1 from /home/charlotte/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages (python 2.7)

[xavfernandez]

Hopefully it was fixed in #3723.
If you're still facing the issue in pip 9.0.1, please re-open an issue with reproduction steps.

[cjerdonek]

If you're still facing the issue in pip 9.0.1, please re-open an issue with reproduction steps.

I've re-opened / re-reported this issue as #4400.

[faoujisoka]

I need some help here
when I run this ' pip install --upgrade pip ' this error appears:
You are using pip version 9.0.1, however version 10.0.1 is available.
You should consider upgrading via the 'python -m pip install --upgrade pip' command.
I have pip 9.0.1 version So what should I do???

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