How to use Python's pip to download and keep the zipped files for a package?
installing python packages offline
For windows users:
To download into a file
open your cmd and folow this:
cd <*the file-path where you want to save it*>
pip download <*package name*>
the package and the dependencies will be downloaded in the current working directory.
To install from the current working directory:
set your folder where you downloaded as the cwd then follow these:
pip install <*the package name which is downloded as .whl*>  --no-index --find-links <*the file locaation where the files are downloaded*>
this will search for dependencies in that location.
If I want to use the pip command to download a package (and its dependencies), but keep all of the zipped files that get downloaded (say, django-socialregistration.tar.gz) - is there a way to do that?
I've tried various command-line options, but it always seems to unpack and delete the zipfile - or it gets the zipfile, but only for the original package, not the dependencies.