Python pip3 download extremely slow, can it be speeded up?

Pedroski · 09-14-2020, 12:56 AM

I am in China. That slows things down.

For blocked sites I can use Astrill to access them.

I don't know if Astrill will reroute pip3 install commands. Doesn't look like it.

Quote:

pedro@pedro-512ssd:~$ pip3 install numpy
Collecting numpy
Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packa...ux1_x86_64.whl (13.4MB)
0% | | 40kB 1.3kB/s eta 2:44:53

First, the download is extremely slow, then I keep getting a timeout.

Quote:

urllib3.exceptions.ReadTimeoutError: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='files.pythonhosted.org', port=443): Read timed out.

Any way to speed this up?

pan64 · 09-14-2020, 02:25 AM

if the remote host is down or slow (or unreachable)? Hm, how do you think? Probably you can use a different mirror.