[Distutils] Proxy server with easy_install (Python noob)

[Andreas Jung]

On 18.10.2008 16:27 Uhr, James Mansion wrote:
> 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.

Set the 'http_proxy_ environment variable. Check with the urllib2 module
documentation.

-aj
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