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

On on OSX 10.6.8 leopard, after having "upgraded" to Lion, then downgrading again (ouch - AVOID!), I went through the Wolf Paulus method a few months ago, completely ignorant of python. Deleted python 2.7 altogether and "replaced" it with 3.something. My FTP program stopped working (Fetch) and who knows what else relies on Python 2.7. So at that point I downloaded the latest version of 2.7 from python.org and it's installer got me up and running - until i tried to use virtualenv.

What seems to have worked for me this time was totally deleting Python 2.7 with this code:

sudo rm -R /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7

removing all the links with this code:

sudo rm /usr/bin/pydoc
sudo rm /usr/bin/python
sudo rm /usr/bin/pythonw
sudo rm /usr/bin/python-config

I had tried to install python with homebrew, but apparently it will not work unless all of XTools is installed, which I have been avoiding, since the version of XTools compatible with 10.6 is ancient and 4GB and mostly all I need is GCC, the compiler, which you can get here.

So I just installed with the latest download from python.org.

Then had to reinstall easy_install, pip, virtualenv.

Definitely wondering when it will be time for a new laptop, but there's a lot to be said for buying fewer pieces of hardware (slave labor, unethical mining, etc).