Python 3.6.5（Windows x64）下pip install engine安装失败排查

Hey there, let's break down why you're hitting that "No matching distribution found" error when trying to install the engine package. Here's the full breakdown:

Core Issue #

The root problem is straightforward: there is no public Python package named engine hosted on PyPI (Python's official package repository). When you run pip install engine, your pip version 10.0.1 checks PyPI for this package, but comes up completely empty—hence the error you're seeing.

Common Scenarios & Fixes #

Let's walk through the most likely reasons and how to resolve them:

• You misremembered the package name
  Many libraries have similar-sounding names. For example, maybe you meant one of these valid packages:

  • engineio (a real-time communication library)
  • pyengine (a lightweight 2D game engine)
  • A domain-specific engine component (like parts of sqlalchemy, which handles database engines but isn't a standalone engine package)
    Double-check the official documentation of the library you're targeting to get the correct package name.

• The package is in a private repository
  If engine is an internal company package or a private personal project, it won't be on public PyPI. In this case:

  1. Reach out to the package maintainer for the private repository URL.
  2. Install using the private source directly, like:

     pip install engine --index-url https://your-private-repo-url.com/simple/
     

  3. Or, if you have a local copy of the package (e.g., a .tar.gz or .whl file), install it locally:

     pip install /path/to/engine-package-file.whl
     

• You made a typo
  It's easy to misspell package names. Double-check that you didn't write engines instead of engine, or mix up letters (like engien). You can also run pip search engine (available in pip 10.0.1) to browse similar valid packages that might match what you need.

Quick Verification #

To confirm there's no public engine package, you can use PyPI's search feature directly—you'll notice there's no package with exactly that name listed.

内容的提问来源于stack exchange，提问作者Jayalakshmi