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

There is too short default timeout set for pip by default. You should really set this environment variable PIP_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT to at least 60 (1 minute)

Source: http://www.pip-installer.org/en/latest/configuration.html

Answer 2

the --timeout option doesn't seem to work properly.

I can install django properly by using either:

pip --default-timeout=60 install django

or

export PIP_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT=60
pip install django

Note: using pip version 1.2.1 on RHEL 6.3

Source: DjangoDay2012-Brescia.pdf, page 11

Answer 3

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