[Tutor] Virtualenv Error

[Jonathan Zacsh]

On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 22:52, Malcolm Newsome
<malcolm.newsome at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey All,
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> Does anyone have any experience creating virtualenvs that can assist me with
> this error.  I’m running windows 7, python 2.7.1 and virtualenv 1.6.
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> I installed virtualenv using easy_install and there were no errors.  I get
> the following error when trying to create a virtualenv.
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> Any assistance is appreciated! Thanks!
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> Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
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> Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.
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> C:\Users\Malcolm>virtualenv malcery
>
> New python executable in malcery\Scripts\python.exe
>
> Installing setuptools................done.
>
>   Complete output from command C:\Users\Malcolm\malcery\Scripts\python.exe
> C:\Users\Malcolm\mal...sy_install-script.py
> C:\Users\Malcolm\Pyt...pport\pip-1.0.tar.gz:
>
>   Traceback (most recent call last):
>
>   File "C:\Users\Malcolm\malcery\Scripts\easy_install-script.py", line 8, in
> <module>
>
>     load_entry_point('setuptools==0.6c11', 'console_scripts',
> 'easy_install')()
>
>   File
> "C:\Users\Malcolm\malcery\lib\site-packages\setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg\pkg_resources.py",
> line 318, in load_entry_point
>
>     return get_distribution(dist).load_entry_point(group, name)
>
>   File
> "C:\Users\Malcolm\malcery\lib\site-packages\setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg\pkg_resources.py",
> line 2221, in load_entry_point
>
>     return ep.load()
>
>   File
> "C:\Users\Malcolm\malcery\lib\site-packages\setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg\pkg_resources.py",
> line 1954, in load
>
>     entry = __import__(self.module_name, globals(),globals(), ['__name__'])
>
>   File
> "C:\Users\Malcolm\malcery\lib\site-packages\setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg\setuptools\command\easy_install.py",
> line 21, in <module>
>
>
>
>   File
> "C:\Users\Malcolm\malcery\lib\site-packages\setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg\setuptools\package_index.py",
> line 2, in <module>
>
>   File "C:\Users\Malcolm\Python27\lib\urllib2.py", line 94, in <module>
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>     import httplib
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>   File "C:\Users\Malcolm\Python27\lib\httplib.py", line 71, in <module>
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>     import socket
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>   File "C:\Users\Malcolm\Python27\lib\socket.py", line 47, in <module>
>
>     import _socket
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> ImportError: No module named _socket
>
> ----------------------------------------
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>
>   File "C:\Users\Malcolm\Python27\Scripts\virtualenv-script.py", line 8, in
> <module>
>
>     load_entry_point('virtualenv==1.6', 'console_scripts', 'virtualenv')()
>
>   File
> "C:\Users\Malcolm\Python27\lib\site-packages\virtualenv-1.6-py2.7.egg\virtualenv.py",
> line 745, in main
>
>     prompt=options.prompt)
>
>   File
> "C:\Users\Malcolm\Python27\lib\site-packages\virtualenv-1.6-py2.7.egg\virtualenv.py",
> line 845, in create_environment
>
>     install_pip(py_executable)
>
>   File
> "C:\Users\Malcolm\Python27\lib\site-packages\virtualenv-1.6-py2.7.egg\virtualenv.py",
> line 602, in install_pip
>
>     filter_stdout=_filter_setup)
>
>   File
> "C:\Users\Malcolm\Python27\lib\site-packages\virtualenv-1.6-py2.7.egg\virtualenv.py",
> line 813, in call_subprocess
>
>     % (cmd_desc, proc.returncode))
>
> OSError: Command C:\Users\Malcolm\malcery\Scripts\python.exe
> C:\Users\Malcolm\mal...sy_install-script.py
> C:\Users\Malcolm\Pyt...pport\pip-1.0.tar.gz failed with error code 1
>
>
>
> C:\Users\Malcolm>
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Have you tried using pip instead of easy_install? Its supposed to the
"newer, better" approach.
 http://www.pip-installer.org/

I don't know that it matters. I'm new to python myself.

-- 
Jonathan Zacsh