error with user for pip install with custom index-url

Question

I have an internal nexus server where I store my python packages.

When I try to run

pip install --index-url=https://my_pip_user:my_pip_pass@my_pip_url ...

while building docker image I'm getting

my_pip_user is not a valid value for user option, please specify a boolean value like yes/no, true/false or 1/0 instead.

The error is not thrown if cmd is run just in bash.

I've tried to put index-url into ~/.pip/pip.conf but it doesn't change anything.

Answer 1

I had the similar problem before, just check your environment variables, make sure you do not have any env vars which start with "PIP_", e.g. "PIP_USER", otherwise it will consider this is a pip command option and will be passed to pip command.

Reference: https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/user_guide/#environment-variables