I am also encountering this in 14.04. I do not have a local copy of the 'requests' package (or in fact any packages other than python-usb). python-pip simply appears to be broken out of the box on 14.04.
I am also encountering this in 14.04. I do not have a local copy of the 'requests' package (or in fact any packages other than python-usb). python-pip simply appears to be broken out of the box on 14.04.