Python - cant find pip.ini or pip.conf in Windows

Question

I got Python 2.7.8 installed on my Win7 machine, which comes with pip already pre-installed.
I\'m successfully able to install new packages from pip and now I need to add c

Answer 1

Pip changed the location of the config file in windows starting in pip 6.0 the pip config docs explain the location of the config files as follows.

pip --version >= 6 (as of version 18.1 hasn't changed again yet)

%APPDATA%\pip\pip.ini

pip --version < 6

%HOME%\pip\pip.ini

Inside a virtual env

%VIRTUAL_ENV%\pip.ini

Site-wide win7+ (same as of win10)

C:\ProgramData\pip\pip.ini

Site-wide winxp (note windows vista side wide not supported)

C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\pip\pip.ini

NOTE: If multiple configuration files are found by pip then they are combined in the following order:

1. The site-wide file is read
2. The per-user file is read
3. The virtualenv-specific file is read

Also pip added a config command starting in pip 10.

pip config --help