Python 2.7 on System, PIP and Virtualenv still using 2.6 - How do I switch them to use 2.7

Question

I am on MacOSx 10.6.8 and I have python 2.7 installed

python -v produces:

Python 2.7.2 (v2.7.2:8527427914a2, Jun 11 2011, 15:22:34) 
[GCC 4.2.1 (Appl         


        

Answer 1

I had a similar problem, virtualenv python was picking up the 2.7.6 system python from /usr/bin/python rather than the 2.7.9 version in /usr/local/bin/python

I had to do:

sudo pip uninstall virtualenv

Then I installed setuptools like so:

curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/ez_setup.py -o - | python

Then I installed pip with that new version of setuptools like so:

easy_install pip

Then I installed virtualenv

pip install --upgrade virtualenv