Unable to create virtual environment with error "setuptools pip wheel with error code 1"

Question

I am using Windows 10 with Python 3.5 64bit. And installed virtualenv from pip.

When trying to create a new virtual environment, it tends to fail with the following logging:

> virtualenv env1 Using base prefix 'c:\\program files\\python 3.5' New python executable in env1\Scripts\python.exe Installing setuptools, pip, wheel... Complete output from command E:\vp\env1\Scripts\python.exe -c "import sys, pip; sys...d\"] + sys.argv[1:]))" setuptools pip wheel: Ignoring indexes: https://pypi.python.org/simple Collecting setuptools The repository located at None is not a trusted or secure host and is being ignored. If this repository is available via HTTPS it is recommended to use HTTPS instead, otherwise you may silence this warning and allow it anyways with '--trusted-host None'. The repository located at None is not a trusted or secure host and is being ignored. If this repository is available via HTTPS it is recommended to use HTTPS instead, otherwise you may silence this warning and allow it anyways with '--trusted-host None'. The repository located at None is not a trusted or secure host and is being ignored. If this repository is available via HTTPS it is recommended to use HTTPS instead, otherwise you may silence this warning and allow it anyways with '--trusted-host None'. The repository located at None is not a trusted or secure host and is being ignored. If this repository is available via HTTPS it is recommended to use HTTPS instead, otherwise you may silence this warning and allow it anyways with '--trusted-host None'. The repository located at None is not a trusted or secure host and is being ignored. If this repository is available via HTTPS it is recommended to use HTTPS instead, otherwise you may silence this warning and allow it anyways with '--trusted-host None'. The repository located at None is not a trusted or secure host and is being ignored. If this repository is available via HTTPS it is recommended to use HTTPS instead, otherwise you may silence this warning and allow it anyways with '--trusted-host None'. The repository located at None is not a trusted or secure host and is being ignored. If this repository is available via HTTPS it is recommended to use HTTPS instead, otherwise you may silence this warning and allow it anyways with '--trusted-host None'. The repository located at None is not a trusted or secure host and is being ignored. If this repository is available via HTTPS it is recommended to use HTTPS instead, otherwise you may silence this warning and allow it anyways with '--trusted-host None'. The repository located at None is not a trusted or secure host and is being ignored. If this repository is available via HTTPS it is recommended to use HTTPS instead, otherwise you may silence this warning and allow it anyways with '--trusted-host None'. Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement setuptools (from versions: ) No matching distribution found for setuptools ---------------------------------------- ...Installing setuptools, pip, wheel...done. Traceback (most recent call last): File "c:\program files\python 3.5\lib\runpy.py", line 170, in _run_module_as_main "__main__", mod_spec) File "c:\program files\python 3.5\lib\runpy.py", line 85, in _run_code exec(code, run_globals) File "C:\Program Files\Python 3.5\Scripts\virtualenv.exe\__main__.py", line 9, in <module> File "c:\program files\python 3.5\lib\site-packages\virtualenv.py", line 832, in main symlink=options.symlink) File "c:\program files\python 3.5\lib\site-packages\virtualenv.py", line 1004, in create_environment install_wheel(to_install, py_executable, search_dirs) File "c:\program files\python 3.5\lib\site-packages\virtualenv.py", line 969, in install_wheel 'PIP_NO_INDEX': '1' File "c:\program files\python 3.5\lib\site-packages\virtualenv.py", line 910, in call_subprocess % (cmd_desc, proc.returncode)) OSError: Command E:\vp\env1\Scripts\python.exe -c "import sys, pip; sys...d\"] + sys.argv[1:]))" setuptools pip wheel failed with error code 1 

When executed with - no-setuptools, it works well and creates a virtual environment.

Answer 1

I had a similar but different error, and I had a module in my current directory that overlapped the Python string module.

Here is my stack trace. Note that this basically means that the string module does not have the maketrans attribute. docs said this was not the case. It was a big hint that something was wrong with the string module, which made me check the directory for extra modules.

 New python executable in ./env/bin/python Installing setuptools, pip, wheel... Complete output from command /home/.../env/bin/python -c "import sys, pip; sys...d\"] + sys.argv[1:]))" setuptools pip wheel: Traceback (most recent call last): File "<string>", line 1, in <module> File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/virtualenv_support/pip-7.1.2-py2.py3-none-any.whl/pip/__init__.py", line 6, in <module> File "/usr/lib/python2.7/optparse.py", line 77, in <module> import textwrap File "/usr/lib/python2.7/textwrap.py", line 40, in <module> class TextWrapper: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/textwrap.py", line 82, in TextWrapper whitespace_trans = string.maketrans(_whitespace, ' ' * len(_whitespace)) AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'maketrans' ---------------------------------------- ...Installing setuptools, pip, wheel...done. Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/bin/virtualenv", line 11, in <module> sys.exit(main()) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/virtualenv.py", line 832, in main symlink=options.symlink) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/virtualenv.py", line 1004, in create_environment install_wheel(to_install, py_executable, search_dirs) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/virtualenv.py", line 969, in install_wheel 'PIP_NO_INDEX': '1' File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/virtualenv.py", line 910, in call_subprocess % (cmd_desc, proc.returncode)) OSError: Command /home/.../env/bin/python -c "import sys, pip; sys...d\"] + sys.argv[1:]))" setuptools pip wheel failed with error code 1 

Answer 2

I had the same error. My path to the computer is "F: \ 灰尘 \ pathon3.6". I got this error from the Chinese. and I find that your path "c: \ program files \ python 3.5" is a space in the "program files". that why an error occurred, I think. The python path, I think, must first be English, the second one does not need any space. Hope this is helpful to you. (Ignore my English. I'm a Chinese boy. Thank you)