I don't understand, it looks like this worked.

#+RESULTS:
: Searching for requests
: Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/requests/
: Best match: requests 2.2.1
: Downloading
https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/r/requests/requests-2.2.1.tar.gz#md5=ac27081135f58d1a43e4fb38258d6f4e
: Processing requests-2.2.1.tar.gz
: Writing
/cygdrive/c/Users/KARL~1.VOI/AppData/Local/Temp/easy_install-L3Xxcz/requests-2.2.1/setup.cfg
: Running requests-2.2.1/setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir
/cygdrive/c/Users/KARL~1.VOI/AppData/Local/Temp/easy_install-L3Xxcz/requests-2.2.1/egg-dist-tmp-veH5jq

After this, are you unable to import requests?

I don't use cygwin, and maybe the funny drive paths confuse windows.

John

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On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 10:02 AM, Karl Voit <devnull@karl-voit.at> wrote:

> Hi John!
>
> * John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:
> >
> > windows and pip/easy_install are funny sometimes.
> >
> > I often do something like this:
> >
> > #+BEGIN_SRC python
> > from setuptools.command import easy_install
> > easy_install.main( ["-U","requests"] )
> > #+END_SRC
> >
> > #+RESULTS:
> > #+begin_example
> > Searching for requests
> > Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/requests/
> > Best match: requests 2.2.1
> > Downloading
> >
> https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/r/requests/requests-2.2.1.tar.gz#md5=ac27081135f58d1a43e4fb38258d6f4e
> > Processing requests-2.2.1.tar.gz
> > Writing /tmp/easy_install-EWppsP/requests-2.2.1/setup.cfg
> > Running requests-2.2.1/setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir
> > /tmp/easy_install-EWppsP/requests-2.2.1/egg-dist-tmp-xoXvDk
> > Adding requests 2.2.1 to easy-install.pth file
> >
> > Installed
> >
> /opt/kitchingroup/enthought/epd-7.3-2-rh5-x86_64/lib/python2.7/site-packages/requests-2.2.1-py2.7.egg
> > Processing dependencies for requests
> > Finished processing dependencies for requests
> > #+end_example
>
> Ah, great idea. However, at my side, it ends up like this:
>
> #+BEGIN_SRC python :results output
> from setuptools.command import easy_install
> easy_install.main( ["-U","requests"] )
> #+END_SRC
>
> #+RESULTS:
> : Searching for requests
> : Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/requests/
> : Best match: requests 2.2.1
> : Downloading
> https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/r/requests/requests-2.2.1.tar.gz#md5=ac27081135f58d1a43e4fb38258d6f4e
> : Processing requests-2.2.1.tar.gz
> : Writing
> /cygdrive/c/Users/KARL~1.VOI/AppData/Local/Temp/easy_install-L3Xxcz/requests-2.2.1/setup.cfg
> : Running requests-2.2.1/setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir
> /cygdrive/c/Users/KARL~1.VOI/AppData/Local/Temp/easy_install-L3Xxcz/requests-2.2.1/egg-dist-tmp-veH5jq
>
> In Cygwin shell, I can execute "easy_install pip". After that, I can
> execute
> "pip" but I never get any output on "pip help" "pip -h" "pip --help" or
> "pip
> install requests".
>
> I miss my Linux at work :-(
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