No module named 'virtualenv.activation.xonsh'

Question

I triyed to execute pipenv shell in a new environtment and I got the following error:

Loading .env environment variables…
Creating a virtualenv for this project…
Using /home/user/.pyenv/shims/python3.9 (3.9.7) to create virtualenv…
⠋ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'virtualenv.activation.xonsh'
Error while trying to remove the /home/user/.local/share/virtualenvs/7t env: 
No such file or directory

Virtualenv location: 
Warning: Your Pipfile requires python_version 3.9, but you are using None (/bin/python).
  $ pipenv check will surely fail.
Spawning environment shell (/usr/bin/zsh). Use 'exit' to leave.

I tried to remove pipenv, install python with pienv create an alias to python, but anything works.

Any idea, I got the same error in existing environment, I tried to remove all environments folder but nothing.

Thanks.

Answer 1

By github issue, the solution that works was the following:

sudo apt-get remove python3-virtualenv

Answer 2

Removing the virtualenv pip package worked for me (on Ubuntu WSL)

pip uninstall virtualenv

Answer 3

I had the same error when updating from Python 3.7 to 3.9 in my pyproject.toml:

[tool.poetry.dependencies]
- python = "^3.7"
+ python = "^3.9"

The cause for me was that I had not installed python3.9-venv yet. Easy:

sudo apt install python3.9-venv

Check with

python3.9 -m venv

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OS: Ubuntu 21.10, so your package name might differ

Answer 4

I'm on a Mac (with Homebrew + Pyenv) and unfortunately none of the other solutions helped. It turned out that even though pipenv appeared to run ok, the Pipenv install itself was somehow incomplete/corrupted. Doing

pip install pipenv

fixed it for me. To do a more thorough reinstall if the above doesn't fix it, you can also try

pip install --force-reinstall pipenv