Or that the Internet access they do have is often metered. A friend tells me 100MB costs about 1 USD where he is, which is not an insignificant amount of money.

Or that the Internet access they do have is often metered. A friend tells me 100MB costs about 1 USD where he is, which is not an insignificant amount of money. Really puts the whole 300 MB electron app thing in perspective; at any rate it's understandable why having a PyPI mirror in the classroom would be preferable to having each student download the packages over and over.