jython pip issues

[norpol]

Somehow pip is kind of crucial for Python in general, other Dockerhub jython Docker images do in-fact bundle pip. Somehow harisekhon/jython:latest does not contain pip though. Usually one would use ensurepip to retrieve a recent version of pip, though

$ jython -m ensurepip --upgrade
Ignoring ensurepip failure: pip 1.6 requires SSL/TLS

tracing down the jython code, this will message will show up if import ssl raises an exception. Trying to do so will result in missing module encodings.

$ jython
Jython 2.7.0 (default:9987c746f838, Apr 29 2015, 02:25:11) 
[OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (Oracle Corporation)] on java1.8.0_171
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import ssl
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/Users/fwierzbicki/hg/jython/jython/dist/Lib/ssl.py", line 18, in <module>
  File "/Users/fwierzbicki/hg/jython/jython/dist/Lib/_socket.py", line 2, in <module>
ImportError: No module named encodings

[HariSekhon]

harisekhon/jython-dev solved this