mkvirtualenv: Too many levels of symbolic links

Question

I am running virtualenv burrito and getting an error that there are too many levels of symbolic links. I have no idea what that means.

mkvirtualenv --python          


        

Answer 1

I came across it after I had built my freshest environment. Because it has been interrupted by myself while it was building the new one. Then I noticed that virtualenvwrapper already created a new environment folder underneath the environment directory but it has not been accomplished properly. Hence, I deleted the lastest environment folder and retried to install same environment. It fixed!

Answer 2

The reason this wasn't working was because I was capitalizing Python. As soon as I did it using python3 instead of Python3 I stopped getting trouble.

Answer 3

I had the same problem in raspberry pi during open cv installation. I solve my problem by using below method.

Go to /home/pi ls -all and check weather .virtualenvs is there or not if it is there remove it by rm -r .virtualenvs

Answer 4

File "/Users/croberts/? seems you're using Windows. Consider using 'virtualenvwrapper-win'. The latest version is 1.2.0 which support python 2 up to 3.4. I've used it without any problems. If you use several versions of python on your computer, you can switch between them using 'pywin'.

For making new virtualenv:

C:\Users\your_directory>mkvirtualenv neo
Using base prefix 'C:\\Python34'
New python executable in neo\Scripts\python.exe
Installing setuptools, pip...done.

For view existing virtualenv:

C:\Users\your_directory>lsvirtualenv

dir /b /ad "C:\Users\your_directory"
=========================================================================
env0
env1
env2
neo

Answer 5

I had the same problem on OSX.

I got rid of it after:

1. removing env folder
2. removing __pycache__ folder

Answer 6

Strangely, I ran into this when I tried to create a virtualenv with a name that already existed. Solution to remove the old and create a new one:

rmvirtualenv old-one
mkvirtualenv new-one