Can't set pip source on Windows

[wanzzhehe]

Description

When I use python3 as microsoft store version, I can't set pip source in my computer, and it show the following message:

ERROR: Unable to save configuration. Please report this as a bug.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.8_3.8.2800.0_x64__qbz5n2kfra8p0\lib\site-packages\pip\_internal\commands\configuration.py", line 264, in _save_configuration
    self.configuration.save()
  File "C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.8_3.8.2800.0_x64__qbz5n2kfra8p0\lib\site-packages\pip\_internal\configuration.py", line 225, in save
    with open(fname, "w") as f:
PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'C:\\Program Files\\WindowsApps\\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.8_3.8.2800.0_x64__qbz5n2kfra8p0\\pip.ini'
ERROR: Internal Error.

so I report it.

And according to the error message, I believe that the config files should save to another place instead of the origin place.

Expected behavior

No response

pip version

pip 21.3.1

Python version

Python3.8, Python3.10

OS

Windows10 21H2

How to Reproduce

Just use python3 as microsoft store's version and run python3 -m pip config set global.index-url https://pypi.tuna.tsinghua.edu.cn/simple

Output

No response

Code of Conduct

• I agree to follow the PSF Code of Conduct.

[notatallshaw]

I can reproduce but if I add the --user flag it works fine, e.g.

python3 -m pip config set global.index-url https://pypi.tuna.tsinghua.edu.cn/simple --user

This makes sense, the "pip.ini" in "Program Files" is for all users and would need admin privileges to edit, you should be writing you the user level pip configuration.

Also this isn't really a pip issue I don't think, this is a Windows permissions / Python Windows Store issue.

[wanzzhehe]

OK, thanks.

[DiddiLeija]

Yeah, it is known that the MStore Python can be hard to use. It is recommended to use the Python from https://python.org.

I'm closing this, since this doesn't seems to be a Pip bug.