pip install numpy doesn't work: "No matching distribution found"

Question

I am a newbie in Python. I installed Python 2.7.10 and it comes already with pip. I tried to run this command to download the NumPy library.

D:\workspace\python>pip install numpy
Collecting numpy
  Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement numpy (from versions: )
No matching distribution found for numpy

But I got this error. How can I solve this?

I also want to know the difference between easy_install and pip.

Answer 1

You should be able to install NumPy with pip now:

pip install numpy

Or with Conda:

conda install numpy

As for the difference between easy_install and pip, easy_install came first. People in the Python community had a difference of opinions and pip was born. Pip is basically just an alternative to easy_install. See the following for a good comparison of the two:

• https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/pip_easy_install.html