Python - cant find pip.ini or pip.conf in Windows

问题:

I got Python 2.7.8 installed on my Win7 machine, which comes with pip already pre-installed.
I'm successfully able to install new packages from pip and now I need to add custom repository url to the install list of pip

To do so I need to modify pip.ini which is in %APPDATA%\pip\pip.ini according to the Official Manual
However there are no pip folder anywhere (not in Roaming, not in Local, not in LocalLow) nor there exists PyPa folder in: C:\ProgramData\PyPA\pip\pip.conf

Could you tell me where do i search for pip.ini? how to add foreign repo to the install list?

回答1:

Finally got it sorted.

Apparently for Windows users pip.ini config file is not created, however can be added manually!

just create new %APPDATA%\pip\pip.ini and content of custom repository:

[install]
find-links = https://<login>:<password>@your.repo.com/custom/url

Reference: https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/user_guide/#config-file

回答2:

A bit late, but for reference: Try adding the pip.ini file in %USERPROFILE%\pip\pip.ini (usually: C:\Users\<username>\pip\pip.ini).

回答3:

Instead of checking a list of well-known locations, you can ask pip to list the valid locations:

pip config -v list

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Fun fact

On the same machine, with the same pip version, the valid locations can vary based on the actual Python version.

Environment: Win 7 x64, the HOME environment variable is set to D:\Home

Python 3.7.3:

> pip config -v list
For variant 'global', will try loading 'C:\ProgramData\pip\pip.ini'
For variant 'user', will try loading 'D:\Home\pip\pip.ini'
For variant 'user', will try loading 'C:\Users\foobar\AppData\Roaming\pip\pip.ini'
For variant 'site', will try loading 'C:\Python37\pip.ini'

Python 3.8.0:

> pip config -v list
For variant 'global', will try loading 'C:\ProgramData\pip\pip.ini'
For variant 'user', will try loading 'C:\Users\foobar\pip\pip.ini'
For variant 'user', will try loading 'C:\Users\foobar\AppData\Roaming\pip\pip.ini'
For variant 'site', will try loading 'C:\Python38\pip.ini'

回答4:

On windows pip.exe looks for "pip.ini" in this order:

C:\ProgramData\pip\pip.ini
C:\Users\<username>\pip\pip.ini
C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\pip\pip.ini

回答5:

Pip changed the location of the config file in windows starting in pip 6.0 the pip config docs explain the location of the config files as follows.

pip --version >= 6 (as of version 18.1 hasn't changed again yet)

%APPDATA%\pip\pip.ini

pip --version < 6

%HOME%\pip\pip.ini

Inside a virtual env

%VIRTUAL_ENV%\pip.ini

Site-wide win7+ (same as of win10)

C:\ProgramData\pip\pip.ini

Site-wide winxp (note windows vista side wide not supported)

C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\pip\pip.ini

NOTE: If multiple configuration files are found by pip then they are combined in the following order:

1. The site-wide file is read
2. The per-user file is read
3. The virtualenv-specific file is read

Also pip added a config command starting in pip 10.

pip config --help

回答6:

All the answers are partially wrong and right. It depends on how your system is configured. The only way (for me) to find out was to patch site-packages/pip/locations.py at the point where site_config_files is assigned (around line 120 for pip 9.0.1)

print('########## ' + str(site_config_files))

and then run pip search foo

On my system it printed ########## ['C:\\ProgramData\\pip\\pip.ini'], of which location I assumed I could not create/edit. But it just worked.

Btw, for my system %APPDATA% points to C:\Users\MYUSER\AppData\Roaming, which is not looked at when running pip on my system.

回答7:

I know this is a bit late, however, this post is high on the rankings when searching. Inside a virtual environment pip.ini can also be in the root of the virtual environment. From the docs

Inside a virtualenv:

On Unix and macOS the file is $VIRTUAL_ENV/pip.conf
On Windows the file is: %VIRTUAL_ENV%\pip.ini

回答8:

Rather than guessing first check if you have any default global/local config which is read by pip with the below command:

pip config list

This will give all details of the default config loaded by python.

If the above command doesn't give any output please try to find where pip tries to find for the global config file with the below command:

pip config --editor <path to editor of your choice> edit

The above command will open the config file which pip reads by default or else it will give an error saying that the file doesn't exist.

If there's an error please go ahead and create the exact directory and file structure as show in the error. Once the file has been created please make your changes e.g.

[global]
cert = /path/to/base64/ssl/certificate.pem
proxy = http://username:password@ipaddress:port

Save the file and please try to check (the above mentioned check command) if the configs are loaded by pip or not.

For more info please follow pip config documentation

回答9:

For me (Windows 8, pip 9.0.1, python 3.5.3), the correct path was

c:\Users\<UserName>\.pypirc      <- sic!, even on windows

回答10:

Windows 10:

I had to create 'pip' directory inside

C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Roaming\

then create pip.ini file inside that 'pip' directory:

C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\pip\pip.ini

No other location worked for me.

回答11:

Make sure you acually have a pip.ini file, not pip.ini.txt.