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Watch the live stream: Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by us: Check out the courses over at Talk Python And Brian’s book too! Special guest: Brandon Braner Brain #1: pip Environmental Variables The problem with snakes on a plane → no internet Situation: want to work on some code on a plane project set up to use tox, which creates venvs, and pip installs dependencies from pypi.org. but… no internet Preflight work: run tox with an internet connection copy everything from all of the “site-packages” directories under “.tox” into a “wheels” directory or whatever you want to call it. set environmental variables: PIP_FIND_LINKS=file:/Users/okken/wheels PIP_NO_INDEX=1 Try this out first BEFORE getting on the plane, to make sure you didn’t miss anything. In flight: tox works fine now, using local dir as index Thanks Paul Ganssle for helping with this. All command line flags for pip are available as env variables: “pip’s command line options can be set with environment variables using the f