pip connection failure: cannot fetch index base URL http://pypi.python.org/simple/

Question

I run sudo pip install git-review, and get the following messages:

Downloading/unpacking git-review
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Answer 1

My explanation/enquiry is for windows environment.
I am pretty new to python, and this is for someone still novice than me.
I installed the latest pip(python installer package) and downloaded 32 bit/64 bit (open source) compatible binaries from http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/, and it worked.

Steps followed to install pip, though usually pip is installed by default during python installation from www.python.org/downloads/
- Download pip-7.1.0.tar.gz from https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pip.
- Unzip and un-tar the above file.
- In the pip-7.1.0 folder, run: python setup.py install. This installed pip latest version.

Use pip to install(any feasible operation) binary package. Run the pip app to do the work(install file), as below:
\python27\scripts\pip2.7.exe install file_path\file_name --proxy
If you face, wheel(i.e egg) issue, use the compatible binary package file. Hope this helps.