Getting error while using virtualenv venv on fedora 26

Question

I installed virtualenv on fedora 26 using pip3 install --user virtualenv.
System has both python 2.7 and python 3.6.
When I am creating a "virtualenv venv", I am getting this output and error.

New python executable in /home/asraisingh/venv/bin/python2
Also creating executable in /home/asraisingh/venv/bin/python
Installing setuptools, pip, wheel...
Complete output from command /home/asraisingh/venv/bin/python2 - setuptools pip wheel:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 7, in
File "/home/asraisingh/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/virtualenv_support/pip-9.0.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl/pip/init.py", line 7, in
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/optparse.py", line 77, in
import textwrap
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/textwrap.py", line 10, in
import string, re

File "string.py", line 1 KDE: 9
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
----------------------------------------
...Installing setuptools, pip, wheel...done.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/asraisingh/.local/bin/virtualenv", line 11, in
sys.exit(main())
File "/home/asraisingh/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/virtualenv.py", line 713, in main
symlink=options.symlink)
File "/home/asraisingh/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/virtualenv.py", line 945, in create_environment
download=download,
File "/home/asraisingh/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/virtualenv.py", line 901, in install_wheel
call_subprocess(cmd, show_stdout=False, extra_env=env, stdin=SCRIPT)
File "/home/asraisingh/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/virtualenv.py", line 797, in call_subprocess
% (cmd_desc, proc.returncode))
OSError: Command /home/asraisingh/venv/bin/python2 - setuptools pip wheel failed with error code 1

Answer 1

Check if you have a file named string.py in your current working directory. If so, rename, move, or delete it. This should solve your problem.