Can't update to newest release

[MarqFJA87]

I'm trying to update to the newest release (2.32.4), but keep getting a message that I'm already up to date.

Expected Result

Successfully update to v2.32.4

Actual Result

Am told that v2.32.3 is the latest release.

Reproduction Steps

py -m pip install requests
WARNING: Ignoring invalid distribution -ip (d:\programs\python\python310\lib\site-packages)
Requirement already satisfied: requests in d:\programs\python\python310\lib\site-packages (2.32.3)
Requirement already satisfied: charset-normalizer<4,>=2 in d:\programs\python\python310\lib\site-packages (from requests) (3.4.1)
Requirement already satisfied: idna<4,>=2.5 in d:\programs\python\python310\lib\site-packages (from requests) (3.10)
Requirement already satisfied: urllib3<3,>=1.21.1 in d:\programs\python\python310\lib\site-packages (from requests) (2.4.0)
Requirement already satisfied: certifi>=2017.4.17 in d:\programs\python\python310\lib\site-packages (from requests) (2025.4.26)
WARNING: Ignoring invalid distribution -ip (d:\programs\python\python310\lib\site-packages)
WARNING: Ignoring invalid distribution -ip (d:\programs\python\python310\lib\site-packages)

System Information

$ python -m requests.help

{
  "chardet": {
    "version": null
  },
  "charset_normalizer": {
    "version": "3.4.1"
  },
  "cryptography": {
    "version": ""
  },
  "idna": {
    "version": "3.10"
  },
  "implementation": {
    "name": "CPython",
    "version": "3.10.0"
  },
  "platform": {
    "release": "10",
    "system": "Windows"
  },
  "pyOpenSSL": {
    "openssl_version": "",
    "version": null
  },
  "requests": {
    "version": "2.32.3"
  },
  "system_ssl": {
    "version": "101010cf"
  },
  "urllib3": {
    "version": "2.4.0"
  },
  "using_charset_normalizer": true,
  "using_pyopenssl": false
}

[nateprewitt]

Requirement already satisfied: requests in d:\programs\python\python310\lib\site-packages (2.32.3)

The message isn't communicating that this is the latest release, just that what's installed meets your defined requirements. You can either use --upgrade with your pip install command to get the latest, or define an explicit pin that requires >=2.32.4.