virtualenv: cannot import name 'main'

Question

I\'m having a little trouble with virtualenv on Mac OS X Yosemite. After I couldn\'t run virtualenv at all first, I installed Python 3 via brew (previously I in

Answer 1

After my upgrade to Fedora 32 I had the same issue which lead me to this question:

ImportError: cannot import name 'main' from 'virtualenv'

In my case I actually seemed to have both /usr/local/bin/virtualenv as well as $HOME/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/virtualenv/__init__.py.

Removing the user virtualenv version and reinstalling it into the system with root fixed the issue:

pip uninstall virtualenv

sudo pip install virtualenv