Installed virtualenv and virtualenvwrapper: Python says no module named virtualenvwrapper

Question

Lots of other threads about similar issues, but none that I could find where quite the same case as mine. So, here goes:

Things I did:

• Ran: sudo easy_install pip
• Ran: sudo pip install virtualenv
• Ran: sudo pip install virtualenvwrapper

Current State:

• .bash_profile

  export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH
  export PIP_DOWNLOAD_CACHE=$HOME/.pip/cache
  export WORKON_HOME=$HOME/.virtualenvs
  export PIP_VIRTUALENV_BASE=$WORKON_HOME
  export VIRTUALENVWRAPPER_PYTHON=/usr/bin/python
  

• Running mkvirtualenv test results in:

  New python executable in trunk/bin/python
  Installing setuptools, pip...done.
  /usr/bin/python: No module named virtualenvwrapper
  

• Manually inspecting '/usr/local/bin' shows that virtualenvwrapper.sh exists

• Unlike some other questions I saw about this, I get no message about virtualenvwrapper when I start a new terminal window
• Running 'which python' results in: /usr/bin/python

What I've tried:

• Inspecting my path to make sure it looks like it is supposed to
• Reinstalling pip, then using the reinstalled pip to reinstall virtualenv and virtualenvwrapper

Any help getting this working would be very much appreciated.

Answer 1

I've managed to get this working after having the same problem you've described here by editing my ~/.bash_profile and adding this:

export WORKON_HOME=$HOME/code/.virtualenvs
export PROJECT_HOME=$HOME/code
export VIRTUALENVWRAPPER_PYTHON=/usr/local/bin/python
export VIRTUALENVWRAPPER_VIRTUALENV=/usr/local/bin/virtualenv
export VIRTUALENVWRAPPER_VIRTUALENV_ARGS='--no-site-packages'

source /usr/local/bin/virtualenvwrapper.sh

Save, close.

then:

$ source ~/.bash_profile

and:

$ mkvirtualenv test