Hi,<br><br>It threw the following error but it must have set the environment variable anyway because the second time I ran it it without the http_proxy it worked fine. Thank you that has been annoying me for a while now.<br>
<br>sudo env http_proxy=<a href="http://my.proxy:80/" target="_blank">http://my.proxy:80/</a>  python -c "import sys; py3 = sys.version_info[0] > 2; u = ....'<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><br> Traceback (most recent call last):<br>
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module><br>  File "<string>", line 1<br>    <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN"><br>    ^<br>SyntaxError: invalid syntax<br>
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fairly sure both of those will read the environment variable http_proxy<br>
anyway...<br>
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