How to install Python package from GitHub?

I want to use a new feature of httpie. This feature is in the github repo https://github.com/jkbr/httpie but not in the release on the python package index https://pypi.python.org/pypi/httpie How can I install the httpie package from the github repo? I tried pip install https://github.com/jkbr/httpie But I got an error ‘could not unpack’ In Nodejs, I … Read more

Can I force pip to reinstall the current version?

I’ve come across situations where a current version of a package seems not to be working and requires reinstallation. But pip install -U won’t touch a package that is already up-to-date. I see how to force a reinstallation by first uninstalling (with pip uninstall) and then installing, but is there a way to simply force an “update” to a nominally current version in a single step?