Error message for virtualenvwrapper on OS X Lion
homebrew, osx-lion, python, virtualenv
Solution
Since you have your own version of python, have you tried overriding VIRTUALENVWRAPPER_PYTHON? (It looks like you want `export VIRTUALENVWRAPPER_PYTHON=/usr/local/bin/python`) The virtualenvwrapper docs suggest setting that envvar to the desired python before sourcing virtualenvwrapper.sh. Their example has:
export VIRTUALENVWRAPPER_PYTHON=/usr/local/bin/python
export VIRTUALENVWRAPPER_VIRTUALENV=/usr/local/bin/virtualenv
source /usr/local/bin/virtualenvwrapper.sh
Problem
I've used homebrew to install python on a new Mac Lion installation, and have been trying to install virtualenv and virtualenvwrapper with pip, but when I start a new terminal session, I get this traceback: ``` Traceback (most recent call last): File "<string>", line 1, in <module> ImportError: No module named virtualenvwrapper.hook_loader virtualenvwrapper.sh: There was a problem running the initialization hooks. If Python could not import the module virtualenvwrapper.hook_loader, check that virtualenv has been installed for VIRTUALENVWRAPPER_PYTHON=/usr/bin/python and that PATH is set properly. ``` The python and pip used are from homebrew, but it seems to want me to use Apple's default python. I get the following ``` ~$ which python | xargs ls -l lrwxr-xr-x 1 beard admin 33 Jun 24 16:11 /usr/local/bin/python -> ../Cellar/python/2.7.3/bin/python ~$ echo $VIRTUALENVWRAPPER_PYTHON /usr/local/bin/python ~$ which pip | xargs ls -l -rwxr-xr-x 1 beard admin 301 Jun 24 16:18 /usr/local/share/python/pip ~$ which virtualenvwrapper.sh | xargs ls -l -rwxr-xr-x 1 beard admin 32227 Jun 24 16:19 /usr/local/share/python/virtualenvwrapper.sh ``` However, it seems to think that I've installed pip (and virtualenv) with the system python in `/usr/bin/python` Edit: In my bashrc-- ``` export WORKON_HOME="$HOME/py-env" export VIRTUALENVWRAPPER_LOG_DIR="$HOME/py-env" export VIRTUALENVWRAPPER_HOOK_DIR="$HOME/py-env" source /usr/local/share/python/virtualenvwrapper.sh export VIRTUALENVWRAPPER_PYTHON="/usr/local/bin/python" ```