python: error while loading shared libraries: libpython3.4m.so.1.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Question

I have created a python virtual environment using virtualenv, after activating it, I can see where is Python installed in my shell as following:

Answer 1

On python 3.8, I resolved this by deleting the virtualenv directory (./venv in my case) and recreating using python's built-in venv module installed of the pip-installed virtualenv. I'm on arch linux and also first did sudo pacman -Syu. Python was originally installed using just sudo pacman -S python.

$ rm -r ./venv
$ python -m venv venv
$ . ./venv/bin/activate
$ python --version
Python 3.8.1