How to configure PIP per config file to use a proxy (with authentification)?

Question

I used to set up environment evariables http_proxy and https_proxy (with user + password) in the past to use Pip (on Windows) behind a corporate proxy. But recently I needed to

Answer 1

If package that you are trying to install has dependencies it's best to create pip.ini for system wide configuration, in windows you can do this in powershell:

mkdir c:\programdata\pip\
new-item c:\programdata\pip\pip.ini

and add this to your pip.ini

[global]
proxy = http://domain\user:pwd@proxy_hostname_or_ip:port 

and then everything should work fine, as HTTP_PROXY variable didn't work for me.

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