title: Could not fetch URL https://pypi.python.org/simple/xlrd/
body: <p>I get this error in when I try to run this command <code>pip install xlrd</code> in my cmd. I used the cmd with elevated privilege but still to no avail. PLease help. Thank you very much.</p>
  
  <p>whole error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>C:\Users\Rodne&gt;pip install xlrd
  Collecting xlrd
    Could not fetch URL https://pypi.python.org/simple/xlrd/: There was a problem confirming the ssl certificate: [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:749) - skipping
    Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement xlrd (from versions: )
  No matching distribution found for xlrd
  You are using pip version 9.0.1, however version 18.1 is available.
  You should consider upgrading via the 'python -m pip install --upgrade pip' command.
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I have python 3.6</p>
  
  <p>I tried upgrading and thi what came out:</p>
  
  <pre><code>C:\WINDOWS\system32&gt;pip install pip setuptools --upgrade
  Could not fetch URL https://pypi.python.org/simple/pip/: There was a problem confirming the ssl certificate: [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:749) - skipping
  Requirement already up-to-date: pip in c:\users\rodne\appdata\local\programs\python\python36\lib\site-packages
  Could not fetch URL https://pypi.python.org/simple/setuptools/: There was a problem confirming the ssl certificate: [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:749) - skipping
  Requirement already up-to-date: setuptools in c:\users\rodne\appdata\local\programs\python\python36\lib\site-packages
  You are using pip version 9.0.1, however version 18.1 is available.
  You should consider upgrading via the 'python -m pip install --upgrade pip' command.
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>using the trusted installation gave me this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>C:\WINDOWS\system32&gt;pip install --trusted-host pypi.python.org xlrd
  Collecting xlrd
    Could not fetch URL https://pypi.python.org/simple/xlrd/: There was a problem confirming the ssl certificate: [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:749) - skipping
    Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement xlrd (from versions: )
  No matching distribution found for xlrd
  You are using pip version 9.0.1, however version 18.1 is available.
  You should consider upgrading via the 'python -m pip install --upgrade pip' command.
  </code></pre>