Thursday, October 08, 2009

How to: set a proxy in Windows for python
Why: So that easy_install can be used to install python packages from the python package index
Solution: set an env var HTTP_PROXY=http://your.proxy.com:8080 . Do not use quotes!
Then set FTP_PROXY to the same: FTP_PROXY=http://your.proxy.com:8080

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