/usr/bin/python3: Error while finding spec for 'virtualenvwrapper.hook_loader' (: No module named 'virtualenvwrapper')

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Answer 1

I had a similar issue on Mac OS Catalina 10.15.6 after I installed vim and macvim using following:

brew install vim && brew install macvim

which I believe was the cause for the problem.

While workon worked but always gave an error message as below:

 ~ $ workon loom
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/bin/python3: Error while finding module specification for 'virtualenvwrapper.hook_loader' (ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'virtualenvwrapper')
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/bin/python3: Error while finding module specification for 'virtualenvwrapper.hook_loader' (ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'virtualenvwrapper')
(loom)  ~ $ 

What worked for me finally was:

1. adding export VIRTUALENVWRAPPER_PYTHON=/usr/local/bin/python3 to .bash_profile
2. sudo pip3 install virtualenvwrapper