Re: Couldn't install numpy on Python 2.7

On Thu, 13 Jun 2024 at 08:46, Oscar Benjamin via Python-list
<python-list@python.org> wrote:

I don't know much about SSL and related networking things especially
on Windows. I would be surprised if pip on old Python can't install
from current PyPI though. I imagine that something strange has
happened like a new version of pip running on an old version of Python
or old Python on new OS (or old PyCharm...).
>
There is no problem using Python 2.7 with pip and PyPI on this Linux
machine but I guess it has a newer SSL library provided by the OS:

Sadly, I would NOT be surprised if this is indeed a problem on
Windows. You're exactly right - on Linux, it can use a newer SSL
library from the OS. Of course, this does assume that you've updated
your OS, which is far from a guarantee, but since this has security
implications there's a good chance you can update it while retaining a
legacy system.

On Thu, 13 Jun 2024 at 08:51, Greg Ewing via Python-list
<python-list@python.org> wrote:

On 13/06/24 10:09 am, Chris Angelico wrote:
 > So if anyone
 > actually does need to use pip with Python 2.7, they probably need to
 > set up a local server
>
You should also be able to download a .tar.gz from PyPI and use pip
to install that. Although you'll have to track down the dependencies
yourself in that case.

Also a possibility; in my opinion, losing dependency management is too
big a cost, so I would be inclined to set up a local server. But then,
I would be using a newer SSL library and not have the problem in the
first place.

ChrisA