pip search django produces time out error

Question

coincidentally, I run pip search django command and I got time out error. even specifing a high value of timeout

Below the logs:

D:\\PERFILES\\rmac         


        

Answer 1

There is too short default timeout set for pip by default. You should really set this environment variable PIP_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT to at least 60 (1 minute)

Source: http://www.pip-installer.org/en/latest/configuration.html