why is pip so SLOW to download? (how to troubleshoot?)
问题 I can wget e.g. python coverage and pip install the package locally quickly and without any problem, but pip install coverage takes forever . Using pip 1.3.1 in a virtual env on Ubuntu 12.04. Any idea what could be the hold-up? 回答1: As Donald Stufft answered in pip issue 864, it happens because pip crawls a lot of pages looking for package sdists, and this behavior was inherited from easy_install . Some packages do not work if you remove that feature, and some guys started a new PEP to remove