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

I used to use the easy_install pip==1.2.1 workaround but I randomly found that if you're having this bug, you probably installed a 32bit version of python.

If you install a 64bit version of it by installing it from the source and then build you virtualenv upon it, you wont have that pip bug anymore.