def get_python(cls):
        """
        returns the python and pip version
        :return: python version, pip version
        """
        python_version = sys.version_info[:3]
        v_string = [str(i) for i in python_version]
        python_version_s = '.'.join(v_string)

        # pip_version = pip.__version__
        pip_version = Shell.pip("--version").split()[1]
        return python_version_s, pip_version