How to set an HTTP proxy in Python 2.7?

Question

I am trying to run a script that installs pip: get-pip.py and am getting a connection timeout due to my network being behind an HTTP proxy. Is there some way I could configu

Answer 1

You can try downloading the Windows binaries for pip from here: http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#pip.

For using pip to download other modules, see @Ben Burn's answer.