And here's my solution. Basically, I move the installed version of requests aside then reinstall the version that I had using easy_install (since pip is borked). Once that's done, you can see that it works again. Note that you can't just install requests without telling it a version because it might install from pip's cache, which would just install the old version of requests again.
11:07:08::mlissner@pounamu::/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages ↪ sudo mv requests/ requests.old 11:07:42::mlissner@pounamu::/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages ↪ sudo easy_install requests==2.2.1 Searching for requests==2.2.1 Reading https://pypi.python.org/simple/requests/ Best match: requests 2.2.1 Downloading https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/r/requests/requests-2.2.1.tar.gz#md5=ac27081135f58d1a43e4fb38258d6f4e Processing requests-2.2.1.tar.gz Writing /tmp/easy_install-JEvkCb/requests-2.2.1/setup.cfg Running requests-2.2.1/setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir /tmp/easy_install-JEvkCb/requests-2.2.1/egg-dist-tmp-ybDF6A Adding requests 2.2.1 to easy-install.pth file Installed /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/requests-2.2.1-py2.7.egg Processing dependencies for requests==2.2.1 Finished processing dependencies for requests==2.2.1 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1306991 Title: pip stops with ImportError for request-Modul To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python-pip/+bug/1306991/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs