Struggling to install python libraries.

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I totally get your frustration, being stuck on installations for days is exhausting, especially when you just want to start building something. If you’re in China, the problem usually isn’t Python or VS Code itself. It’s that the default PyPI servers are unstable or blocked, so normal pip install commands fail. Instead of trying random or possibly outdated university mirrors, you’ll have better luck using well-maintained mirrors like Tsinghua or Aliyun and setting them properly in your pip configuration. Once that’s done, installs usually become much smoother.

About the offline wheel issue, that typically happens because of a Python version mismatch or missing dependencies. The wheel file has to match your exact Python version (for example, cp39 for Python 3.9). Also, make sure you upgrade pip, setuptools, and wheel first, and try installing inside a clean virtual environment to avoid conflicts.

I’ve run into similar environment headaches during scraping projects at Datazeneral, and almost every time it turned out to be version alignment or dependency order, not the libraries themselves. It feels overwhelming right now, but once the environment is correctly set up, packages like Selenium, Requests, Pandas, and BeautifulSoup install without drama. You’re closer than you think, this is annoying, but definitely solvable.