In case anyone else has similar issue
Was able to use "pip install --user xxxx" to install many modules that I want to use globally.
However "pip install --user pandas" was giving error message below.
But turned out that "pip3 install --user pandas" worked.
pip install --user pandas
Collecting pandas
Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/09/39/fb93ed98962d032963418cd1ea5927b9e11c4c80cb1e0b45dea769d8f9a5/pandas-1.1.4.tar.gz
Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
File "/tmp/pip-build-uJyWE8/pandas/setup.py", line 350
f"{extension}-source file '{sourcefile}' not found.\n"
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
----------------------------------------
Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build-uJyWE8/pandas/
You are using pip version 8.1.2, however version 20.2.4 is available.
You should consider upgrading via the 'pip install --upgrade pip' command.
