I ran and re-ran the pip uninstall and got this error on both uninstall and install:
Exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip/basecommand.py", line 215, in main
status = self.run(options, args)
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip/commands/install.py", line 299, in run
requirement_set.prepare_files(finder)
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip/req/req_set.py", line 370, in prepare_files
ignore_dependencies=self.ignore_dependencies))
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip/req/req_set.py", line 458, in _prepare_file
req_to_install, finder)
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip/req/req_set.py", line 397, in _check_skip_installed
req_to_install.check_if_exists()
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip/req/req_install.py", line 1004, in check_if_exists
self.req.name
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 535, in get_distribution
dist = get_provider(dist)
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 415, in get_provider
return working_set.find(moduleOrReq) or require(str(moduleOrReq))[0]
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 943, in require
needed = self.resolve(parse_requirements(requirements))
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 834, in resolve
raise VersionConflict(dist, req).with_context(dependent_req)
ContextualVersionConflict: (pytest 2.5.1 (/Users/cogmission/Library/Python/2.7/lib/python/site-packages), Requirement.parse('pytest==2.4.2'), set(['nupic']))
???
EDIT: First it did uninstall though