Problem Setting Up A Virtualenv

Question

I\'m trying to set up a virtualenv on Ubuntu 10.04 with Python 2.6.5 but having some issues.

After having installed virtualenv and virtualenv wrapper with pip, I\'m

Answer 1

This error occurs because the virtualenv.py file you are using is not compatible with the python version that you are using.. For python2.7 you need to downalod the binaries from the virtualenv.org site and then compile them using

python setup.py install

after the installation use the installed binary(not the virtualenv.py file) to create virtual environment by

virtualenv --no-site-packages /env/