Installed virtualenv and virtualenvwrapper: Python says no module named virtualenvwrapper

Question

Lots of other threads about similar issues, but none that I could find where quite the same case as mine. So, here goes:

Things I did:

• Ran

Answer 1

If you take a look at the virtualenvwrapper.sh script, you will find these lines:

# Locate the global Python where virtualenvwrapper is installed.
if [ "$VIRTUALENVWRAPPER_PYTHON" = "" ] 
then
    VIRTUALENVWRAPPER_PYTHON="$(command \which python)"
fi

If you don't manually export VIRTUALENVWRAPPER appropriately for your version of python, it will assume the system default where you don't have the virtualenvwrapper package installed.

I fixed this like so:

echo "export VIRTUALENVWRAPPER_PYTHON=$(which python3.6)" >> ~/.zshrc

This is all documented on the official website here.