Getting "Failed to load paths error"

Issue description

I’m 99% sure my paths are correct. I’ve followed the paths in my environment variables to make sure the folders actually existed.

I’m having issues getting pipenv to work. I had it working in the past, but now it isn’t. I’m running through the Visual Studio Code terminal, but am experiencing the same issues in command prompt.

I’ve ran pip uninstall pipenv and reinstalled it, to no avail.

I’ve created a new folder with a new ‘test.py’ file, with only ‘print(‘hello’)’ written in it. Inside VSC I ran, pipenv in the terminal and got back the ‘help’ you would expect. Running pipenv shell gives me the following:

Successfully created virtual environment!

Failed to load paths: Unable to create process using ‘C:\Users\GOST CTF SME\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\python.exe -c "import sysconfig, distutils.sysconfig, io, json, sys; paths = {u’purelib’: u’{0}‘.format(distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib(plat_specific=0)),u’stdlib’: u’{0}‘.format(sysconfig.get_path(‘stdlib’)),u’platlib’: u’{0}‘.format(distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib(plat_specific=1)),u’platstdlib’: u’{0}‘.format(sysconfig.get_path(‘platstdlib’)),u’include’: u’{0}‘.format(distutils.sysconfig.get_python_inc(plat_specific=0)),u’platinclude’: u’{0}‘.format(distutils.sysconfig.get_python_inc(plat_specific=1)),u’scripts’: u’{0}‘.format(sysconfig.get_path(‘scripts’)),u’py_version_short’: u’{0}‘.format(distutils.sysconfig.get_python_version()), }; value = u’{0}‘.format(json.dumps(paths));fh = io.open(‘c:/users/gostct~1/appdata/local/temp/tmp87pjy6v_.json’, ‘w’); fh.write(value); fh.close()"’

running pipenv install gives me the same errors and fails to install any library. It sounds like a path issue, so I checked my path variable and everything is there.

Per the install docs, I install using

pip install --user pipenv

Then I use python -m site --user-site and I get C:\Users\user 1\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python310\site-packages. The docs tell me to make sure this and \Scripts is in my PATH, which they both are. My error message suggests the path is in the “Local” folder, but the install docs tell me to use the Roaming folder. Regardless, both paths are there.

Expected result

pipenv to install the libraries.

Steps to replicate

Just run pipenv shell

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Please run $ pipenv --support, and paste the results here. Don’t put backticks (`) around it! The output already contains Markdown formatting.

$ pipenv --support

Pipenv version: '2022.7.4'

Pipenv location: 'C:\\Users\\GOST CTF SME\\AppData\\Local\\Programs\\Python\\Python310\\lib\\site-packages\\pipenv'

Python location: 'C:\\Users\\GOST CTF SME\\AppData\\Local\\Programs\\Python\\Python310\\python.exe'

Python installations found:

• 3.10.5: C:\Users\GOST CTF SME\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\python.exe

PEP 508 Information:

{'implementation_name': 'cpython',
 'implementation_version': '3.10.5',
 'os_name': 'nt',
 'platform_machine': 'AMD64',
 'platform_python_implementation': 'CPython',
 'platform_release': '10',
 'platform_system': 'Windows',
 'platform_version': '10.0.19044',
 'python_full_version': '3.10.5',
 'python_version': '3.10',
 'sys_platform': 'win32'}

System environment variables:

• ALLUSERSPROFILE
• APPDATA
• CHROME_CRASHPAD_PIPE_NAME
• COMMONPROGRAMFILES
• COMMONPROGRAMFILES(X86)
• COMMONPROGRAMW6432
• COMPUTERNAME
• COMSPEC
• CUDA_PATH
• CUDA_PATH_V11_7
• DRIVERDATA
• GEOTRANS_DATA
• HOMEDRIVE
• HOMEPATH
• LOCALAPPDATA
• LOGONSERVER
• NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS
• NVTOOLSEXT_PATH
• ONEDRIVE
• ORIGINAL_XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP
• OS
• PATH
• PATHEXT
• PIPENV_ACTIVE
• PIP_DISABLE_PIP_VERSION_CHECK
• PIP_PYTHON_PATH
• PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE
• PROCESSOR_IDENTIFIER
• PROCESSOR_LEVEL
• PROCESSOR_REVISION
• PROGRAMDATA
• PROGRAMFILES
• PROGRAMFILES(X86)
• PROGRAMW6432
• PROMPT
• PSMODULEPATH
• PUBLIC
• PYENV
• PYENV_HOME
• PYENV_ROOT
• PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE
• PYTHONFINDER_IGNORE_UNSUPPORTED
• SESSIONNAME
• SYSTEMDRIVE
• SYSTEMROOT
• TEMP
• TMP
• USERDOMAIN
• USERDOMAIN_ROAMINGPROFILE
• USERNAME
• USERPROFILE
• VIRTUAL_ENV
• WINDIR
• ZES_ENABLE_SYSMAN
• TERM_PROGRAM
• TERM_PROGRAM_VERSION
• LANG
• COLORTERM
• GIT_ASKPASS
• VSCODE_GIT_ASKPASS_NODE
• VSCODE_GIT_ASKPASS_EXTRA_ARGS
• VSCODE_GIT_ASKPASS_MAIN
• VSCODE_GIT_IPC_HANDLE
• PIP_SHIMS_BASE_MODULE

Pipenv–specific environment variables:

• PIPENV_ACTIVE: 1

Debug–specific environment variables:

• PATH: C:\Users\GOST CTF SME\.virtualenvs\GOST_CTF_SME-lp717o7Z\Scripts;C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v11.7\bin;C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v11.7\libnvvp;C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem;C:\Windows\System32\OpenSSH\;C:\Users\GOST CTF SME\Downloads\chromedriver_win32;C:\Program Files\Amazon\AWSCLIV2\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\i2 Shared\Geotrans\;C:\Program Files\dotnet\;C:\Program Files\Git\cmd;C:\Program Files\NVIDIA Corporation\Nsight Compute 2022.2.0\;C:\Program Files (x86)\NVIDIA Corporation\PhysX\Common;C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\150\Tools\Binn\;C:\Users\GOST CTF SME\.pyenv\pyenv-win\bin;C:\Users\GOST CTF SME\.pyenv\pyenv-win\shims;C:\Users\GOST CTF SME\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\Scripts\;C:\Users\GOST CTF SME\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\;C:\Users\GOST CTF SME\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310;C:\Users\GOST CTF SME\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps;C:\Users\GOST CTF SME\Desktop\Work\1. Dev\Utilities\Chrome_Driver;C:\Users\GOST CTF SME\AppData\Local\Programs\Microsoft VS Code\bin;C:\Users\GOST CTF SME\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python310\site-packages\;C:\Users\GOST CTF SME\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python310\Scripts\;C:\Users\GOST CTF SME\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\Lib\site-packages;
• LANG: en_US.UTF-8
• VIRTUAL_ENV: C:\Users\GOST CTF SME\.virtualenvs\GOST_CTF_SME-lp717o7Z

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Contents of Pipfile (‘C:\Users\GOST CTF SME\Pipfile’):

[[source]]
url = "https://pypi.org/simple"
verify_ssl = true
name = "pypi"

[packages]

[dev-packages]

Contents of Pipfile.lock (‘C:\Users\GOST CTF SME\Pipfile.lock’):

{
    "_meta": {
        "hash": {
            "sha256": "ebffa69a1fa192d1cef7cb42ad79231ca976565c5ce371a70160b3048d3cbc06"
        },
        "pipfile-spec": 6,
        "requires": {},
        "sources": [
            {
                "name": "pypi",
                "url": "https://pypi.org/simple",
                "verify_ssl": true
            }
        ]
    },
    "default": {},
    "develop": {}
}

[dariocc]

I was getting this error on 2021.5.29 (strangely enough, only for one project). Deleting virtualenvs directory, lock file or using pipenv rm would not make any difference.

But updating to 2022.8.15 solved the issue for me.

[BreezySMX]

On vacation right now. I’ll check when I get back next week, thanks for the update though.

R/S Christopher Brown Counter Threat Finance Analyst @.*** © 941-264-5479 [cid:70c2a850-42da-494d-9fdd-b8661394c4ac]

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