title: Installing pip packages to $HOME folder
body: <p>Is it possible? When installing <a href="http://pip.readthedocs.org/en/latest/installing.html" rel="noreferrer"><code>pip</code></a>, install the python packages inside my <code>$HOME</code> folder. (for example, I want to install <code>mercurial</code>, using <code>pip</code>, but inside <code>$HOME</code> instead of <code>/usr/local</code>)</p>
  
  <p>I'm with a mac machine and just thought about this possibility, instead of "polluting" my <code>/usr/local</code>, I would use my <code>$HOME</code> instead.</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0370/" rel="noreferrer">PEP370</a> is exactly about this. Is just creating a <code>˜/.local</code> and do a <code>pip install package</code> enough to make these packages to be installed only at my $HOME folder?</p>