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Installation in virtualenv is attempting to run the global Python binary and failing

Right now I'm trying to install python (3.10) and all further installations on my new pc (windows 10) and so far everything is set up:

  • Python installed
  • Windows paths for "Python" & "Python\Scrips"

I am able to call the python and pip version and also install some packages. But after installing virtualenv and creating one the - at the moment - unfixable error appears: I am unable to install packages into the pip-path of the virtualenviroment itself. Whenever I'm trying to run any pip-command I'm getting the following error:

Unable to create process using 'C:\Users\ExampleUser\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\python.exe "C:\folder\env\Scripts\pip.exe" '

As you can see, it's always refering to the original python-path, but on the other hand it's refering to the pip-path of the virtualenv!? Don't know if it's helpful, but when typing in where python and where pip the paths inside the venv are the first one listed. I've also watched out for no blank spaces in my path...

Unfortunately no explanation out there could help me until now and I never faced this problem on my old machine - mostly the same, except some older version of python, pip and virtualenv.

Does anyone else has an idea what I am missing?

over 4 years ago · Santiago Trujillo
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  1. downloading Python 3 at the official website and installing it via express installation
  2. Copy & Paste the standalone python into the /python folder and overwriting the python version
  3. running python -m pip install --upgrade pip in cmd

Now pip and python 3 are installed in their latest version.

It's work for me

over 4 years ago · Santiago Trujillo Report

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Could you use venv to create your virtual environment, instead of virtualenv (given that venv is the recommended way to create virtual environments for Python 3.3, and newer)?

If using venv is an option, this procedure may give you some idea on how to do it.

I have not done any Python development on Windows, but I think the basics would be:

python3 -m venv your-env-directory
your-env-directory\Scripts\activate.bat

If using venv is not an option, maybe you can try specifying the -v flag when running your virtualenv command to increase verbosity so you can further troubleshoot what's going on.

over 4 years ago · Santiago Trujillo Report

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try upgrade pip version python -m pip install --upgrade pip

over 4 years ago · Santiago Trujillo Report
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