I managed to get pip installed working via Package Manager!!!
Keyword search "python package installer" ->Listed "python3-pip_20.0.2" Python package installer.
All good. i was using "python-pip" which killed me.
ran "pip3 install pandas" and now MOVING again.
THANKS
root# pip3 install pandas
Collecting pandas
Downloading pandas-1.2.0-cp38-cp38-manylinux1_x86_64.whl (9.7 MB)
|████████████████████████████████| 9.7 MB 9.8 MB/s
Collecting python-dateutil>=2.7.3
Downloading python_dateutil-2.8.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl (227 kB)
|████████████████████████████████| 227 kB 8.4 MB/s
Collecting numpy>=1.16.5
Downloading numpy-1.19.5-cp38-cp38-manylinux2010_x86_64.whl (14.9 MB)
|████████████████████████████████| 14.9 MB 10.6 MB/s
Collecting pytz>=2017.3
Downloading pytz-2020.5-py2.py3-none-any.whl (510 kB)
|████████████████████████████████| 510 kB 23.2 MB/s