How to solve ReadTimeoutError: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='pypi.python.org', port=443) with pip?

109
votes

I recently need to install some packages

pip install future
pip install scikit-learn
pip install numpy
pip install scipy

I also tried by writin sudo before them but all it came up with the following errors in red lines:

Exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/basecommand.py", line 122, in main
    status = self.run(options, args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/commands/install.py", line 290, in run
    requirement_set.prepare_files(finder, force_root_egg_info=self.bundle, bundle=self.bundle)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/req.py", line 1198, in prepare_files
    do_download,
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/req.py", line 1376, in unpack_url
    self.session,
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/download.py", line 572, in unpack_http_url
    download_hash = _download_url(resp, link, temp_location)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/download.py", line 433, in _download_url
    for chunk in resp_read(4096):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/download.py", line 421, in resp_read
    chunk_size, decode_content=False):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/urllib3/response.py", line 256, in stream
    data = self.read(amt=amt, decode_content=decode_content)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/urllib3/response.py", line 201, in read
    raise ReadTimeoutError(self._pool, None, 'Read timed out.')
ReadTimeoutError: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='pypi.python.org', port=443): Read timed out.

Storing debug log for failure in /root/.pip/pip.log'
3
pythonpip
Unless there's actually a error called Red Screen Errors, don't put that as the title – abccd
I think it's network problem try ping pypi.python.org see if it works. It can be solved with something as simple as restarting your router or reconnecting to your internet or even just trying again after sometime. please follow How to ask before posting here. – Krishna Chaitanya Kornepati
This could also happen if there it has to by pass proxy. Do: pip install future --proxy=<your proxy site> – user3885927
I solve it with stopping openconnect proxy :| :)) – Mojtaba Arvin

3 Answers

214
votes

Use --default-timeout=100 parameter with the install:

sudo pip install --default-timeout=100 future
15
votes
sudo pip install --default-timeout=100 future

or alternatively

export PIP_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT=100

worked for me on Mac OS X

0
votes

They are two ways to handle this issue:

sudo pip install --default-timeout=100 future

or

pip install --default-timeout=100 future

Note: If you are not superuser of your machine, the sudo pip command will not work.