How to use virtualenv with Google App Engine SDK on Mac OS X 10.6

Question

I am pulling my hair out trying to figure this out because I had it working until last week and somehow it broke.

When I setup a virtualenv for a Google App Engine app

Answer 1

Same answer as bozzo. Here's instructions:

This is described in Issue 4339 for GAE. Here's how to fix it:

1. Download patch here: patch
2. Move the patch to google_appengine/google/appengine/tools/
3. Change your working directory to the same path as above
4. Type: patch -p0 < dev_appserver.patch