How can I resolve Time Out Error when installing Tensorflow in Command Prompt

Question

I currently have installed Python 3.6.4 (v3.6.4:d48eceb, Dec 19 2017, 06:54:40) [MSC v.1900 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32. I also have Anaconda installed with its own python version.

I am trying to install tensorflow with below code (also tried pip install tensorflow). I have successfully installed nltk, numpy and tflearn. I am now trying to install tensorflow and the following message is what I get. I have trying several times over the past hour but I keep getting the same error at different points (percentage completed).

C:\Windows\system32>pip3 install --upgrade tensorflow

Collecting tensorflow

Downloading tensorflow-2.1.0-cp36-cp36m-win_amd64.whl (355.9 MB) |██████████████████████████████ | 336.2 MB 251 kB/s eta 0:01:19

ERROR: Exception:

Traceback (most recent call last):

File.....

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socket.timeout: The read operation timed out

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

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raise ReadTimeoutError(self._pool, None, "Read timed out.") pip._vendor.urllib3.exceptions.ReadTimeoutError: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='files.pythonhosted.org', port=443): Read timed out.

Answer 1

I discovered that issue was indeed the speed of my internet. I downloaded it when the internet was much faster and it downloaded completely.