OS X Maverick pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: pip==1.1

Kept getting the following issue with PIP and easy_install

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "/usr/local/bin/pip", line 5, in

    from pkg_resources import load_entry_point

  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/Extras/lib/python/pkg_resources.py", line 2603, in

    working_set.require(__requires__)

  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/Extras/lib/python/pkg_resources.py", line 666, in require

    needed = self.resolve(parse_requirements(requirements))

  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/Extras/lib/python/pkg_resources.py", line 565, in resolve

    raise DistributionNotFound(req)  # XXX put more info here

pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: pip==1.1

Ran the following to fix it:

wget https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools/raw/bootstrap/ez_setup.py
sudo python ez_setup.py
sudo easy_install -U pip