How can I avoid this strange "Could not fetch URL" error when doing any pip install

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Using python 2.7. Was working fine for months but all of a sudden i start getting this weird error when i try and do pip installs outside of or within a virtualenv. If i do something like this:

pip install pandas

I am told:

Could not fetch URL https://pypi.python.org/simple/pandas/: There was a problem confirming the ssl certificate: EOF occurred in violation of protocol (_ssl.c:590) - skipping
  Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement pandas (from versions: )
No matching distribution found for pandas

This occurs for just about any pip library and it is infuriating. I tried updating my pip and it said it was up to date. I read somewhere i should try and update my virtualenv which I did with:

pip install --upgrade virtualenv

But it gave the same error. So enraging haha.

Try easy_install pandas – Sayali Sonawane Jul 05 '17 at 02:12 — Sayali Sonawane, Jul 05 '17 at 02:12
tried that and it says it can't find anything called pandas – sometimesiwritecode Jul 05 '17 at 02:16 — sometimesiwritecode, Jul 05 '17 at 02:16

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited Sep 01 '22 at 08:02

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As a temporary fix, you could fetch the appropriate .whl for your system from this link and install it using

pip install some-package.whl

Otherwise, you should check the top anwser from here which seems to have fixed the problem when having trouble with ssl.

edited Sep 01 '22 at 08:02

Glorfindel

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answered Jul 05 '17 at 02:18

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How can I avoid this strange "Could not fetch URL" error when doing any pip install

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