Problem with virtualenv in Mac OS X

Question

I\'ve installed virtualenv via pip and get this error after creating a new environment:

selenium:~ auser$ virtualenv new  
New pyt         


        

Answer 1

Like @RyanWilcox mentioned, you might be inadvertently pointing virtualenv to the wrong Python installation. Virtualenv comes with a -p flag to let you specify which interpreter to use.

In my case,

virtualenv test_env

threw the same error as yours, while

virtualenv -p python test_env

worked perfectly.

If you call virtualenv -h, the documentation for the -p flag will tell you which python it thinks it should be using; if it looks wonky, try passing -p python. For reference, I'm on virtualenv 1.11.6.