Bit of a Python noob I'm afraid. I'd like to install Sphinx with easy_install, but its timing out. I'm running XP sp3. This is the usual symptom of trying to use software that hasn't noticed that it needs to use a proxy server to get out of my network. Searches seem to come up with implementations of a proxy server in Pythn (and installation thereof) rather than a way to tell easy_install or installutils etc where my squid server is. Can anyone help? Thanks in advance James