upgrade pip

Author: sarahmish

.github/workflows/tests.yml

@@ -20,7 +20,9 @@ jobs:
       with:
         python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
     - name: Install package
-      run: pip install .[dev]
+      run: |
+        python -m pip install --upgrade pip setuptools
+        pip install .[dev]
     - name: make docs
       run: make docs