Failed to create a virtual environment
Hi! Whenever I create a new project, or try to create a run configuration, an error occurs saying: "Failed to create a virtual environment"
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(My settings and stuff for the project)
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Hi, `idea.log` in "Help | Show Long in ..." should reveal the problem. Try to reproduce the problem and send the log to pycharm-support@jetbrains.com. Feel free to inspect the file yourself.
P.S.: We will improve the error messaging.
Create a virtual environment
Ensure that you have downloaded and installed Python on your computer.
Do one of the following:
Click the Python Interpreter selector and choose Add Interpreter.
Press Ctrl+Alt+S to open the project Settings/Preferences and go to Project <project name> | Python Interpreter. Click Python interpreter and select Add.
In the left-hand pane of the Add Python Interpreter dialog, select Virtualenv Environment. The following actions depend on whether the virtual environment existed before. DGCustomerFirst.com
I have the above problem on windows. How do I solve it?
Aiden Song There could be many root causes for this issue. Could you please send the logs as instructed by Pavel above?
I arrived here from google with the same issue. I can't create or use ANY env or venv from existing or new projects within Pycharm after a fresh install on a VM.
In my cause the "cause" is network UNC paths, AGAIN. This used to be fixed. Seems Windows 10 in a VM does not handle network file transactions very well. Lot of errors like "not a directory", when in fact it IS a directory and it is perfectly valid. It seems as though the directory gets created, but there is a concurrency issue with the next thread trying to read/write to the directory and it seemingly hasn't actually been created "yet". Suggesting an async setting in the network or disk settings.
eg:
NotADirectoryError: [WinError 267] The directory name is invalid: '\\\\10.0.0.199\\paul\\devel\\home_auto\\home_heating\\venv\\Lib\\site-packages'
However, if I copy and paste that line into explorer.... it opens fine.
I do not, in my case, think this is a JetBrains issues as Eclipse does similar things on this VM when anything is put on network drives. I need to check network synchronisation settings.
Now I have this:
IsADirectoryError: [Errno 21] Is a directory: '\\\\10.0.0.199\\paul\\devel\\home_auto\\home_heating\\venv\\Lib\\site-packages\\setuptools\\command\\__init__.py'
No... it's really not.
<insert frustrated rant> about Windows networking being junk. Network drives SHOULD BE 100% TRANSPARENT!
I suffered from similar problem.
In my case, console encoding was a problem. Changing console encoding from x-windows-949 to utf-8 fixed the problem.
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2022-11-02 23:20:57,289 [ 341292] INFO - #c.j.p.p.PyPackageManagerImpl - Running packaging tool: C:\Users\ysung\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\python.exe -S C:\Program Files\JetBrains\PyCharm 2022.2.3\plugins\python\helpers\virtualenv.pyz D:\git\slack-proxy\venv
2022-11-02 23:20:57,289 [ 341292] WARN - #c.j.p.s.PySdkUtil - Charset x-windows-949 is not UTF-8, which is likely lead to troubles
2022-11-02 23:20:57,319 [ 341322] INFO - #c.j.p.p.PyPackageManagerImpl - Exit code 1
2022-11-02 23:20:57,319 [ 341322] INFO - #c.j.p.p.PyPackageManagerImpl - Fatal Python error: init_stdio_encoding: failed to get the Python codec name of the stdio encoding
Python runtime state: core initialized
LookupError: unknown encoding: x-windows-949
Current thread 0x00007380 (most recent call first):
<no Python frame>
2022-11-02 23:21:01,940 [ 345943] INFO - #c.i.c.ComponentStoreImpl - Saving appCodeVisionSettings took 16 ms
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Ensure that Python is installed on your system and is accessible from the command line. You can check the Python version by running:
Upgrade pip: It's a good practice to ensure that your pip Siding Replacement Estimates is up-to-date. Run the following command:
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python --version