I installed Cygwin today and forgot to install the PIP package for Python 2.7.
Looking online, I found that you could install the PIP package by re-running the Cygwin installation .exe. However, re-running the .exe took a LOT longer than I expected.
It is 100% faster downloading and executing get-pip.py from the following location:
Execute “python -m pip –version” to verify your version!