[Distutils] Can't install google-api-python-client using pip

[Donald Stufft]

> On May 3, 2015, at 5:21 PM, Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I want to install google-api-python-client using pip. I can see it when I search from the command line:
> 
> % pip-2.7 search google | egrep google-api
> google-api-python-client  - Google API Client Library for Python
> google-apitools           - client libraries for humans
> google-api-python-client-py3 - Google API Client Library for Python (python 3x port)
> google-apis-client-generator - Google Apis Client Generator
> 
> I can see it in PyPI:
> 
> <Screen Shot 2015-05-03 at 4.16.16 PM.png>
> ​
> When I try to install it, pip denies any knowledge of the package:
> 
> % pip-2.7 install --user google-api-python-client
> Downloading/unpacking google-api-python-client
>   Cannot fetch index base URL http://pypi.python.org/simple/ <http://pypi.python.org/simple/>
>   Could not find any downloads that satisfy the requirement google-api-python-client
> No distributions at all found for google-api-python-client
> Storing complete log in /Users/skip/.pip/pip.log
> 
> I can visit http://pypi.python.org/simple/ <http://pypi.python.org/simple/> and see that google-api-python-client is one of the links. Looking at pip.log I see that it's somehow translating "http" into "https":
> 
>   Could not fetch URL http://pypi.python.org/simple/google-api-python-client/ <http://pypi.python.org/simple/google-api-python-client/>: <urlopen error unknown url type: https>
> 
> Am I missing something?
> 
> 


Well, PyPI redirects HTTP to HTTPS, so it’s going to be just following that redirect.

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