Is there a way to manually install modules for python?
<p>I keep running into problems with installing modules for python. Either because the modules themselves aren't able to be downloaded via pip or because of some error or another. </p>

<p>Is it possible to simply download the module as a .zip or tar.gz file (as I see a lot of links to do just that) and then somehow place them within the file that Python uses to store its modules (I think it's the Lib folder).</p>

<p>Is this possible? What are the pitfalls for doing something like this? </p>