I've been using virtualenv on Ubuntu and it rocks, so I'm trying to use it on my Mac and I'm having trouble.
The virtualenv
command successfully creates the directory, and easy_install
gladly installs packages in it, but I can't import anything I install. It seems like sys.path
isn't being set correctly: it doesn't include the virtual site-packages
, even if I use the --no-site-packages
option. Am I doing something wrong?
I'm using Python 2.5.1 and virtualenv 1.3.3 on Mac OS 10.5.6
Edit: Here's what happens when I try to use virtualenv:
$ virtualenv test
New python executable in test/bin/python
Installing setuptools............done.
$ source test/bin/activate
(test)$ which python
/Users/Justin/test/bin/python
(test)$ which easy_install
/Users/Justin/test/bin/easy_install
(test)$ easy_install webcolors
[...]
Installed /Users/Justin/test/lib/python2.5/site-packages/webcolors-1.3-py2.5.egg
Processing dependencies for webcolors
Finished processing dependencies for webcolors
(test)$ python
[...]
>>> import webcolors
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: No module named webcolors
>>> import sys
>>> print sys.path
['',
'/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/SQLObject-0.10.2-py2.5.egg',
'/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/FormEncode-1.0.1-py2.5.egg',
...,
'/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5',
'/Users/Justin/test/lib/python25.zip',
'/Users/Justin/test/lib/python2.5',
'/Users/Justin/test/lib/python2.5/plat-darwin',
'/Users/Justin/test/lib/python2.5/plat-mac',
'/Users/Justin/test/lib/python2.5/plat-mac/lib-scriptpackages',
'/Users/Justin/test/Extras/lib/python',
'/Users/Justin/test/lib/python2.5/lib-tk',
'/Users/Justin/test/lib/python2.5/lib-dynload',
'/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages',
'/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/PIL']
Edit 2: Using the activate_this.py
script works, but running source bin/activate
does not. Hopefully that helps narrow down the problem?