Howdy, I'm trying to use virtualenv for the first time and having endless grief. I have upgraded my python distribution to the latest 2.7 distribution and it is completely clean. I have prepended my path environment variable with c:\python27 and c:\python27\scripts. I have installed: setuptools 0.6c11 virtualenv 1.6 windows extensions (I have read some posts that this might be important...)
When I try to create a virtual environment at the shell prompt: virtualenv ENV I get the following error: ########################################################### d:\>virtualenv ENV New python executable in ENV\Scripts\python.exe Installing setuptools................................................ Complete output from command d:\ENV\Scripts\python.exe -c "#!python \"\"\"Bootstra...sys.argv[1:]) " c:\python27\lib\site...ols-0.6c11-py2.7.egg: Processing setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg creating d:\env\lib\site-packages\setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg Extracting setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg to d:\env\lib\site-packages Traceback (most recent call last): File "<string>", line 279, in <module> File "<string>", line 240, in main File "c:\python27\lib\site-packages\setuptools\command\easy_install.py", line 1712, in main with_ei_usage(lambda: File "c:\python27\lib\site-packages\setuptools\command\easy_install.py", line 1700, in with_ei_usage return f() File "c:\python27\lib\site-packages\setuptools\command\easy_install.py", line 1716, in <lambda> distclass=DistributionWithoutHelpCommands, **kw File "c:\python27\Lib\distutils\core.py", line 152, in setup dist.run_commands() File "c:\python27\Lib\distutils\dist.py", line 953, in run_commands self.run_command(cmd) File "c:\python27\Lib\distutils\dist.py", line 972, in run_command cmd_obj.run() File "c:\python27\lib\site-packages\setuptools\command\easy_install.py", line 211, in run self.easy_install(spec, not self.no_deps) File "c:\python27\lib\site-packages\setuptools\command\easy_install.py", line 427, in easy_install return self.install_item(None, spec, tmpdir, deps, True) File "c:\python27\lib\site-packages\setuptools\command\easy_install.py", line 476, in install_item dists = self.install_eggs(spec, download, tmpdir) File "c:\python27\lib\site-packages\setuptools\command\easy_install.py", line 619, in install_eggs return [self.install_egg(dist_filename, tmpdir)] File "c:\python27\lib\site-packages\setuptools\command\easy_install.py", line 693, in install_egg (os.path.basename(egg_path),os.path.dirname(destination))) File "c:\python27\Lib\distutils\cmd.py", line 349, in execute util.execute(func, args, msg, dry_run=self.dry_run) File "c:\python27\Lib\distutils\util.py", line 401, in execute func(*args) File "c:\python27\lib\site-packages\setuptools\command\easy_install.py", line 996, in unpack_and_compile unpack_archive(egg_path, destination, pf) File "c:\python27\lib\site-packages\setuptools\archive_util.py", line 67, in u npack_archive driver(filename, extract_dir, progress_filter) File "c:\python27\lib\site-packages\setuptools\archive_util.py", line 135, in unpack_zipfile z = zipfile.ZipFile(filename) File "c:\python27\Lib\zipfile.py", line 712, in __init__ self._GetContents() File "c:\python27\Lib\zipfile.py", line 746, in _GetContents self._RealGetContents() File "c:\python27\Lib\zipfile.py", line 786, in _RealGetContents raise BadZipfile, "Bad magic number for central directory" zipfile.BadZipfile: Bad magic number for central directory ---------------------------------------- ...Installing setuptools...done. Traceback (most recent call last): File "c:\python27\scripts\virtualenv-script.py", line 8, in <module> load_entry_point('virtualenv==1.6', 'console_scripts', 'virtualenv')() File "c:\python27\lib\site-packages\virtualenv-1.6-py2.7.egg\virtualenv.py", l ine 745, in main prompt=options.prompt) File "c:\python27\lib\site-packages\virtualenv-1.6-py2.7.egg\virtualenv.py", l ine 843, in create_environment install_setuptools(py_executable, unzip=unzip_setuptools) File "c:\python27\lib\site-packages\virtualenv-1.6-py2.7.egg\virtualenv.py", l ine 571, in install_setuptools _install_req(py_executable, unzip) File "c:\python27\lib\site-packages\virtualenv-1.6-py2.7.egg\virtualenv.py", l ine 547, in _install_req cwd=cwd) File "c:\python27\lib\site-packages\virtualenv-1.6-py2.7.egg\virtualenv.py", l ine 813, in call_subprocess % (cmd_desc, proc.returncode)) OSError: Command d:\ENV\Scripts\python.exe -c "#!python \"\"\"Bootstra...sys.argv[1:]) " c:\python27\lib\site...ols-0.6c11-py2.7.egg failed with error code 1 ########################################################### does anyone know what is going on? thanks, Danny -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list