pip is not using extra index url defined in pip.conf

Question

I am using MacOS, and I created a pip.conf in ~/.pip. There is only one extral-index-url in this file, which looks like:

[global]
extra-index-url=https://[username]:[password]@artifactory

After that I tried to run pip config list, and I can see global.extra-index-url=https://[username]:[password]@artifactory in the terminal

However, when I try to use pip to install a package, it still doesn't check this URL. I can install the package by using pip install <package> --extra-index-url https://[username]:[password]@artifactory, but just curious why my pip.conf is not being used.

BTW I am using a virtual env when I run pip. I did copy pip.conf to the virtualenv folder, but it doesn't work either.

Answer 1

@hoefling's comment on the question is the answer I needed. According to the docs, if a directory

$HOME/Library/Application Support/pip/

exists, that will shadow any

$HOME/.config/pip/pip.conf

file. If that exists, it will shadow any

$HOME/.pip/pip.conf

file. So investigate those locations in order, perhaps one of them is getting in the way.