Sorry, I haven't been following this thread carefully. Michael's use of "sudo" caught my eye though. I know virtualenv might be "special", but shouldn't this work?
pip install --user virtualenv It will wind up in $HOME/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages (or similar) I believe. Skip On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 3:11 PM, Michael Torrie <torr...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 12/08/2016 01:48 PM, 3dB wrote: > > Michael, > > > > I tried installing virtual env but got similar permissions error: > > > > IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/Library/Python/2.7/site- > packages/virtualenv.py' > > Just to get virtual environment support you definitely have to install > this package, and it must go to the system packages area. So I think > sudo is a must for this one. > > sudo <whatever command you typed before> > > > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list