Pip WARNING — Resolving ‘Ignoring invalid distribution -ip’

Removing the Ignoring invaild distribution -ip warning when running pip

Warning situation

When running pip install selenium, the following warning is emitted.

Cause

In the path shown after the message, there is a leftover directory whose name starts with -ip that should not be there. The directory was created temporarily and either was not cleaned up or was assigned an invalid name.

Solution

Manually delete the directory whose name starts with -ip.

** Once the directory is deleted, the WARNING disappears. **