pip search django produces time out error

Question

coincidentally, I run pip search django command and I got time out error. even specifing a high value of timeout

Below the logs:

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Answer 1

The pypi is probably overloaded. Just enable mirror fallback and caching in pip. Maybe tune the timeout a bit. Add these in ~/.pip/pip.conf:

[global]
default-timeout = 60
download-cache = ~/.pip/cache

[install]
use-mirrors = true