[Tutor] Virtualenv Error

[Malcolm Newsome]

Hey All,

I installed virtualenv and am getting this error when trying to create one.
I'm running Windows 7.  Can anyone help??

Thanks!


Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

C:\Users\Malcolm>virtualenv chipysite
New python executable in chipysite\Scripts\python.exe
Installing setuptools................done.
  Complete output from command C:\Users\Malcolm\chipysite\Scr...n.exe
C:\Users\Malcolm\chipysite\Scr...pt.py
C:\Users\Malcolm\Python26\lib\...ar.gz:
  Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\Malcolm\chipysite\Scripts\easy_install-script.py", line 8,
in <module>
    load_entry_point('setuptools==0.6c11', 'console_scripts',
'easy_install')()
  File
"C:\Users\Malcolm\chipysite\lib\site-packages\setuptools-0.6c11-py2.6.egg\pk
g_resources.py", line 318, in load_entry_point
    return get_distribution(dist).load_entry_point(group, name)
  File
"C:\Users\Malcolm\chipysite\lib\site-packages\setuptools-0.6c11-py2.6.egg\pk
g_resources.py", line 2221, in load_entry_point
    return ep.load()
  File
"C:\Users\Malcolm\chipysite\lib\site-packages\setuptools-0.6c11-py2.6.egg\pk
g_resources.py", line 1954, in load
    entry = __import__(self.module_name, globals(),globals(), ['__name__'])
  File
"C:\Users\Malcolm\chipysite\lib\site-packages\setuptools-0.6c11-py2.6.egg\se
tuptools\command\easy_install.py", line 21, in <module>

  File
"C:\Users\Malcolm\chipysite\lib\site-packages\setuptools-0.6c11-py2.6.egg\se
tuptools\package_index.py", line 2, in <module>
  File "C:\Users\Malcolm\Python26\lib\urllib2.py", line 92, in <module>
    import httplib
  File "C:\Users\Malcolm\Python26\lib\httplib.py", line 70, in <module>
    import socket
  File "C:\Users\Malcolm\Python26\lib\socket.py", line 46, in <module>
    import _socket
ImportError: No module named _socket
----------------------------------------
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\Malcolm\Python26\Scripts\virtualenv-script.py", line 8, in
<module>
    load_entry_point('virtualenv==1.5.2', 'console_scripts', 'virtualenv')()
  File
"C:\Users\Malcolm\Python26\lib\site-packages\virtualenv-1.5.2-py2.6.egg\virt
ualenv.py", line 558, in main
    prompt=options.prompt)
  File
"C:\Users\Malcolm\Python26\lib\site-packages\virtualenv-1.5.2-py2.6.egg\virt
ualenv.py", line 656, in create_environment
   install_pip(py_executable)
  File
"C:\Users\Malcolm\Python26\lib\site-packages\virtualenv-1.5.2-py2.6.egg\virt
ualenv.py", line 415, in install_pip
    filter_stdout=_filter_setup)
  File
"C:\Users\Malcolm\Python26\lib\site-packages\virtualenv-1.5.2-py2.6.egg\virt
ualenv.py", line 624, in call_subprocess
    % (cmd_desc, proc.returncode))
OSError: Command C:\Users\Malcolm\chipysite\Scr...n.exe
C:\Users\Malcolm\chipysite\Scr...pt.py
C:\Users\Malcolm\Python26\lib\...ar.gz failed with error code 1