Why does creating an Anaconda Virtual Environment in Pycharm give a Time Out error?

Question

In Pycharm, whenever I try to create a Conda virtual environment, I am getting Time Out errors. Here is how I am creating the virtual environment:

And this is the error message I receive no matter how many times I try:

And here is the error message:

Solving environment: ...working... failed

CondaHTTPError: HTTP 000 CONNECTION FAILED for url <https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/pro/noarch/repodata.json.bz2>
Elapsed: -

An HTTP error occurred when trying to retrieve this URL.
HTTP errors are often intermittent, and a simple retry will get you on your way.

If your current network has https://www.anaconda.com blocked, please file
a support request with your network engineering team.

SSLError(MaxRetryError('HTTPSConnectionPool(host=\'repo.anaconda.com\', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /pkgs/pro/noarch/repodata.json.bz2 (Caused by SSLError("Can\'t connect to HTTPS URL because the SSL module is not available."))'))

If it is because Path variables aren't set, then can someone guide me on how and what to set?

Answer 1

This particular case is covered by the following ticket in PyCharm's bug tracker: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/PY-35141

IDE doesn't activate base conda in C:\ProgramData before creating the environment causing SSLError.