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
  C         


        

Answer 1

I had a similar problem, but in my case I was getting the error:

Downloading/unpacking bencode
  Cannot fetch index base URL http://c.pypi.python.org/simple/
  Could not find any downloads that satisfy the requirement bencode
No distributions at all found for bencode
Storing complete log in /home/andrew/.pip/pip.log

In my case I was able to fix the error by editing ~/.pip/pip.conf and changing http://c.pypi.python.org/simple/ to http://pypi.python.org/simple and then pip worked fine again.