How to install python2.7 in kali 5.10.0-kali6-amd64

In this case before getting to the issue installing AutoBlue-MS17-010 pip2.7 install -r requirements setuptools error, I tried to install the requirements with pip3.

This seemed to work initially, however, when running, it was not working as expected.

I found the following stackoverflow question

this solution worked for me