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

[Chris Jerdonek]

On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 5:57 PM, Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 3:01 PM, Ned Deily <nad at acm.org> wrote:
>>
>> Based on the messages, my guess is that you are not using the most
>> recent version of pip and/or you may be trying to use it with an older
>> version of OpenSSL.  Try upgrading to the latest pip; you may find that
>> the download works or that you'll get a more meaningful message.
>
> Well, that's not working either:
>
> % pip-2.7 install --upgrade pip
> Cannot fetch index base URL http://pypi.python.org/simple/
> Could not find any downloads that satisfy the requirement pip in
> /Users/skip/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages
> Downloading/unpacking pip
> No distributions at all found for pip in
> /Users/skip/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages
> Storing complete log in /Users/skip/.pip/pip.log
>
> And then I had the bright idea to see if ensurepip was available:
>
> % python
> Python 2.7.9+ (2.7:94ec4d8cf104, Jan 24 2015, 14:56:50)
> [GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 6.0 (clang-600.0.56)] on darwin
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>>
> % python -m ensurepip
> Ignoring ensurepip failure: pip 6.0.6 requires SSL/TLS
>
> which would explain what's wrong. I'll have to see why SSL/TLS is unavailable.

It still seems look your first approach should have said something
about SSL being required, or is there a reason the message can't or
shouldn't be shown in that case?

--Chris