On 05/03/2018 03:40 PM, Zachary Ware wrote:
On Thu, May 3, 2018 at 2:10 PM, Jim <jf_byr...@comcast.net> wrote:
I have python 3.6 installed in a virtual environment on Mint 18. Today I
wanted to use pip and got this error when I tried to use it.

  (env36) jfb@jims-mint18 ~ $ pip help
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/home/jfb/EVs/env36/bin/pip", line 7, in <module>
     from pip import main
   File "/home/jfb/EVs/env36/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pip/__init__.py",
line 43, in <module>
     from pip.utils import get_installed_distributions, get_prog
   File
"/home/jfb/EVs/env36/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pip/utils/__init__.py",
line 23, in <module>
     from pip.locations import (
   File "/home/jfb/EVs/env36/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pip/locations.py",
line 9, in <module>
     from distutils import sysconfig
ImportError: cannot import name 'sysconfig'

I searched for sysconfig and found this:

/home/jfb/EVs/env36/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pip/_vendor/distlib/_backport/__pycache__/sysconfig.cpython-36.pyc
/home/jfb/EVs/env36/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pip/_vendor/distlib/_backport/sysconfig.cfg
/home/jfb/EVs/env36/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pip/_vendor/distlib/_backport/sysconfig.py

The results seem to be the same as when I searched a python 3.5 virtual
environment I have setup.

It has worked in the past as I have installed pylint and pykeyboard with it.
As I type this I just remembered Mint updated python 3.6 earlier today.

So now I suspect the update is involved. Has anyone else experienced this
and know how to fix it?

First, try a clean venv (python3.6 -m venv venv && ./venv/bin/pip help).

Ok, I just tried this and got this error.

jfb@jims-mint18 ~ $ python3.6 -m venv /home/jfb/EVs/env365 && ./venv/bin/pip help The virtual environment was not created successfully because ensurepip is not
available.  On Debian/Ubuntu systems, you need to install the python3-venv
package using the following command.

    apt-get install python3-venv

You may need to use sudo with that command. After installing the python3-venv
package, recreate your virtual environment.

Failing command: ['/home/jfb/EVs/env365/bin/python3.6', '-Im', 'ensurepip', '--upgrade', '--default-pip']

Couple of things troubling about this message. I just checked and python3-venv is installed, in fact I used it to install the python3.6 environment I'm having problems with. I did a search and ensurepip is on my system at //usr/lib/python3.6/ensurepip.

Regards,  Jim

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