title: How to manually install python packages for VS Code in windows?
body: <p>I am not able to download any python packages via VS Code on my office Windows system due to the proxy. Is there a way that I can do it manually by downloading and placing the downloaded files at the right place?</p>
  
  <p>e.g. acutally i can see the <code>matplotlib</code> package in <a href="https://pypi.org/simple/matplotlib/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://pypi.org/simple/matplotlib/</a>, but cannot download it from office as blocked by firewall.</p>
  
  <p>So, though I set up proxy in vs code terminal as:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&gt; (env) C:\Playground\vscode\py\ms&gt;set
  &gt; HTTPS_PROXY=https://username:password@proxy.mycompany.com:8080
  &gt; 
  &gt; (env) C:\Playground\vscode\py\ms&gt;set
  &gt; HTTP_PROXY=http://username:password@proxy.mycompany.com:8080
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>, no wonder it failed when I tried to install matplotlib:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&gt; (env) C:\Playground\vscode\py\ms&gt;easy_install matplotlib Searching for
  &gt; matplotlib Reading https://pypi.python.org/simple/matplotlib/
  &gt; Downloading
  &gt; https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/51/fe/84ab101f8ab543d89b6a128326f62adcdafd2781ab8362a737e6ce78eea7/matplotlib-3.1.0.tar.gz#sha256=1e0213f87cc0076f7b0c4c251d7e23601e2419cd98691df79edb95517ba06f0c
  &gt; error: Can't download
  &gt; https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/51/fe/84ab101f8ab543d89b6a128326f62adcdafd2781ab8362a737e6ce78eea7/matplotlib-3.1.0.tar.gz#sha256=1e0213f87cc0076f7b0c4c251d7e23601e2419cd98691df79edb95517ba06f0c:
  &gt; 403 Forbidden
  </code></pre>