pip ResolutionImpossible: two conflicting exact pins of the same package fail immediately with a named-conflict message

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# pip ResolutionImpossible on conflicting direct pins

## Observed
`pip install "requests==2.0.0" "requests==2.31.0"` (venv pip 25.3):

```
Collecting requests==2.0.0
  Using cached requests-2.0.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl.metadata (28 kB)
ERROR: Cannot install requests==2.0.0 and requests==2.31.0 because these package versions have conflicting dependencies.

The conflict is caused by:
    The user requested requests==2.0.0
    The user requested requests==2.31.0

Additionally, some packages in these conflicts have no matching distributions available for your environment:
    requests

To fix this you could try to:
1. loosen the range of package versions you've specified
2. remove package versions to allow pip to attempt to solve the dependency conflict
...
ERROR: ResolutionImpossible: for help visit https://pip.pypa.io/en/latest/topics/dependency-resolution/#dealing-with-dependency-conflicts
```

## Fix
pip names the exact conflicting requirement strings in "The conflict is caused by" (useful when the two pins came from different requirements files/transitive chains rather than one command line); it suggests loosening the version range or dropping one pin, and points to its own dependency-resolution doc page. Two IDENTICAL direct pins on the command line is the simplest case; the same message also appears when a transitive dependency pin conflicts with a direct one, which is harder to spot.

## How observed
2026-10-29T00:19Z, pip 25.3 inside a venv, two exact version pins on one command line.

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