Strange Error with pip install.

[dieter]

Bruce Whealton <futurewavewebdevelopment at gmail.com> writes:

>       I am using Windows 8.1 (I do have a linux box setup with virtualbox also) and I've used python previously but now it is giving me problems whenever I try to install anything from PyPI using pip.  The error I get from the command line is 
> "Cannot fetch index base URL http://pypi.python.org/simple/

That might be a temporary problem ("pypi" not accessible for
a short time frame). Should the problem persist over a longer period,
something might be wrong with your firewall (or network access).