title: Installing Python Requests
body: <p>So I'm trying to download requests using pip and am getting the error below. I've checked the error log but it's largely incomprehensible to me.</p>
  
  <p>Any suggestions? I'm getting a similar issue when trying to use pip for beautifulsoup4.</p>
  
  <pre><code>~ ∴ pip install requests
  Downloading/unpacking requests
    Downloading requests-2.2.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl (625kB): 625kB downloaded
  Installing collected packages: requests
  Cleaning up...
  Exception:
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-1.5.2-py2.7.egg/pip/basecommand.py", line 122, in main
      status = self.run(options, args)
    File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-1.5.2-py2.7.egg/pip/commands/install.py", line 279, in run
      requirement_set.install(install_options, global_options, root=options.root_path)
    File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-1.5.2-py2.7.egg/pip/req.py", line 1380, in install
      requirement.install(install_options, global_options, *args, **kwargs)
    File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-1.5.2-py2.7.egg/pip/req.py", line 664, in install
      self.move_wheel_files(self.source_dir, root=root)
    File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-1.5.2-py2.7.egg/pip/req.py", line 894, in move_wheel_files
      pycompile=self.pycompile,
    File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-1.5.2-py2.7.egg/pip/wheel.py", line 202, in move_wheel_files
      clobber(source, lib_dir, True)
    File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-1.5.2-py2.7.egg/pip/wheel.py", line 189, in clobber
      os.makedirs(destsubdir)
    File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/os.py", line 157, in makedirs
      mkdir(name, mode)
  OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/requests'
  
  Storing debug log for failure in /Users/my_name/Library/Logs/pip.log
  </code></pre>