title: python virtualenv is not creating
body: <p>i want to create python virtualenv with python version 2.7.6 but there is error as follow , even i wanted to reinstall pip but it showed that pip is of latest version: </p>
  
  <p>$ virtualenv cow-env</p>
  
  <pre><code>  New python executable in cow-env/bin/python Installing setuptools,   
    pip...
    Complete output from command /home/cow/cow/cow-env/bin    /python     -c "import sys, pip; sys...d\"] + sys.argv[1:]))" setuptools pip:
    Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "&lt;string&gt;", line 1, in &lt;module&gt;
    File "/usr/share/python-virtualenv/pip-1.5debian1-py2.py3-  
    none-any.whl   /pip/__init__.py", line 10, in &lt;module&gt;
  
    File "/usr/share/python-virtualenv/pip-1.5debian1-py2.py3-none-any.whl 
    /pip/util.py", line 18, in &lt;module&gt;
     File "/usr/share/python-virtualenv/pip-1.5debian1-py2.py3-none-any.whl
    /pip/_vendor/distlib/version.py", line 14, in &lt;module&gt;
    File "/usr/share/python-virtualenv/pip-1.5debian1-py2.py3-none-any.whl 
    /pip/_vendor/distlib/compat.py", line 31, in &lt;module&gt;
  
    ImportError: cannot import name HTTPSHandler
     ----------------------------------------
    ...Installing setuptools, pip...done.
    Traceback (most recent call last):
     File "/usr/bin/virtualenv", line 3, in &lt;module&gt;
     virtualenv.main()
      File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/virtualenv.py", line 825, in main
     symlink=options.symlink)
     File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/virtualenv.py", line 993, in   
    create_environment
     install_wheel(to_install, py_executable, search_dirs)
     File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/virtualenv.py", line 961, in   
     install_wheel
     'PIP_NO_INDEX': '1'
     File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/virtualenv.py", line 903,  
     in call_subprocess
     % (cmd_desc, proc.returncode))
    OSError: Command /home/cow/cow/cow-env/bin/python -c "import   sys,pip;   sys...d\"] + sys.argv[1:]))" setuptools pip failed with error code 1
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>output of $pip --version is as follow:</p>
  
  <pre><code>   Traceback (most recent call last):
     File "/usr/local/bin/pip", line 7, in &lt;module&gt;
     from pip import main
      File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/__init__.py", line 60, in      &lt;module&gt;
     from pip.util import get_installed_distributions, get_prog
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/util.py", line 19, in          &lt;module&gt;
     from distlib import version
     File "/usr/share/python-wheels/distlib-0.1.8-py2.py3-none-any.whl       /distlib/version.py", line 14, in &lt;module&gt;
    File "/usr/share/python-wheels/distlib-0.1.8-py2.py3-none-any.whl         /distlib/compat.py", line 31, in &lt;module&gt;
     ImportError: cannot import name HTTPSHandler
  </code></pre>