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

C:\Users\Asus>pip install matplotlib
Downloading/unpacking matplotlib
  Cannot fetch index base URL https://pypi.python.org/simple/
  Could not find any downloads that satisfy the requirement matplotlib
Cleaning up...
No distributions at all found for matplotlib
Storing debug log for failure in C:\Users\Asus\pip\pip.log

I used 'easy_install pip==1.2.1' and it worked fine.

C:\Users\Asus>easy_install pip==1.2.1
Searching for pip==1.2.1
Reading https://pypi.python.org/simple/pip/
Best match: pip 1.2.1
Downloading ...

Then on using this command 'pip install matplotlib'

C:\Users\Asus>pip install matplotlib
Downloading/unpacking matplotlib
  Downloading matplotlib-2.0.0b4.tar.gz (unknown size):