title: Virtualenv not compatible with this system or executable
body: <p>Simply trying to create a virtual environment on my mac OSX 10.10.05</p>
  
  <p>Running from the Terminal, already successfully made VirtualEnv on linux and windows OS on other computers.</p>
  
  <p>Tried troubleshooting this by adding a WORK_ON path to my bash profile, did not resolve. Online forums doesn't seem to address this, suggestions are to use mkvirtualenv which does not seem to be a downloadable package per pip, conda and easy_install...</p>
  
  <p>Anyways, if you're able to help that would be super appreciated.</p>
  
  <p>here's the terminal output:</p>
  
  <pre><code>joshua ~ $ pip install --upgrade virtualenv
  Requirement already up-to-date: virtualenv in ./anaconda/lib/python3.5/site-packages
  joshua ~ $ virtualenv -p python3 test
  Running virtualenv with interpreter /Users/joshua/anaconda/bin/python3
  Using base prefix '/Users/joshua/anaconda'
  New python executable in /Users/joshua/test/bin/python3
  Also creating executable in /Users/joshua/test/bin/python
  ERROR: The executable /Users/joshua/test/bin/python3 is not functioning
  ERROR: It thinks sys.prefix is '/Users/joshua' (should be '/Users/joshua/test')
  ERROR: virtualenv is not compatible with this system or executable
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>...tried uninstalling virtualenv</p>
  
  <pre><code>  Successfully uninstalled virtualenv-15.1.0
  joshua ~ $ pip install virtualenv
  Collecting virtualenv
    Using cached virtualenv-15.1.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl
  Installing collected packages: virtualenv
  Successfully installed virtualenv-15.1.0
  joshua ~ $ virtualenv test -v
  Using base prefix '/Users/joshua/anaconda'
  Creating /Users/joshua/test/lib/python3.5
  Symlinking Python bootstrap modules
    Symlinking /Users/joshua/test/lib/python3.5/config-3.5m
    Symlinking /Users/joshua/test/lib/python3.5/lib-dynload
    Symlinking /Users/joshua/test/lib/python3.5/plat-darwin
    Symlinking /Users/joshua/test/lib/python3.5/os.py
    Ignoring built-in bootstrap module: posix
    Symlinking /Users/joshua/test/lib/python3.5/posixpath.py
    Cannot import bootstrap module: nt
    Symlinking /Users/joshua/test/lib/python3.5/ntpath.py
    Symlinking /Users/joshua/test/lib/python3.5/genericpath.py
    Symlinking /Users/joshua/test/lib/python3.5/fnmatch.py
    Symlinking /Users/joshua/test/lib/python3.5/locale.py
    Symlinking /Users/joshua/test/lib/python3.5/encodings
    Symlinking /Users/joshua/test/lib/python3.5/codecs.py
    Symlinking /Users/joshua/test/lib/python3.5/stat.py
    Cannot import bootstrap module: UserDict
    Cannot import bootstrap module: copy_reg
    Symlinking /Users/joshua/test/lib/python3.5/types.py
    Symlinking /Users/joshua/test/lib/python3.5/re.py
    Cannot import bootstrap module: sre
    Symlinking /Users/joshua/test/lib/python3.5/sre_parse.py
    Symlinking /Users/joshua/test/lib/python3.5/sre_constants.py
    Symlinking /Users/joshua/test/lib/python3.5/sre_compile.py
    Cannot import bootstrap module: _abcoll
    Symlinking /Users/joshua/test/lib/python3.5/warnings.py
    Symlinking /Users/joshua/test/lib/python3.5/linecache.py
    Symlinking /Users/joshua/test/lib/python3.5/abc.py
    Symlinking /Users/joshua/test/lib/python3.5/io.py
    Symlinking /Users/joshua/test/lib/python3.5/_weakrefset.py
    Symlinking /Users/joshua/test/lib/python3.5/copyreg.py
    Symlinking /Users/joshua/test/lib/python3.5/tempfile.py
    Symlinking /Users/joshua/test/lib/python3.5/random.py
    Symlinking /Users/joshua/test/lib/python3.5/__future__.py
    Symlinking /Users/joshua/test/lib/python3.5/collections
    Symlinking /Users/joshua/test/lib/python3.5/keyword.py
    Symlinking /Users/joshua/test/lib/python3.5/tarfile.py
    Symlinking /Users/joshua/test/lib/python3.5/shutil.py
    Symlinking /Users/joshua/test/lib/python3.5/struct.py
    Symlinking /Users/joshua/test/lib/python3.5/copy.py
    Symlinking /Users/joshua/test/lib/python3.5/tokenize.py
    Symlinking /Users/joshua/test/lib/python3.5/token.py
    Symlinking /Users/joshua/test/lib/python3.5/functools.py
    Symlinking /Users/joshua/test/lib/python3.5/heapq.py
    Symlinking /Users/joshua/test/lib/python3.5/bisect.py
    Symlinking /Users/joshua/test/lib/python3.5/weakref.py
    Symlinking /Users/joshua/test/lib/python3.5/reprlib.py
    Symlinking /Users/joshua/test/lib/python3.5/base64.py
    Symlinking /Users/joshua/test/lib/python3.5/_dummy_thread.py
    Symlinking /Users/joshua/test/lib/python3.5/hashlib.py
    Symlinking /Users/joshua/test/lib/python3.5/hmac.py
    Symlinking /Users/joshua/test/lib/python3.5/imp.py
    Symlinking /Users/joshua/test/lib/python3.5/importlib
    Symlinking /Users/joshua/test/lib/python3.5/rlcompleter.py
    Symlinking /Users/joshua/test/lib/python3.5/operator.py
    Symlinking /Users/joshua/test/lib/python3.5/_collections_abc.py
    Symlinking /Users/joshua/test/lib/python3.5/_bootlocale.py
  Creating /Users/joshua/test/lib/python3.5/site-packages
  Writing /Users/joshua/test/lib/python3.5/site.py
  Writing /Users/joshua/test/lib/python3.5/orig-prefix.txt
  Writing /Users/joshua/test/lib/python3.5/no-global-site-packages.txt
  Creating parent directories for /Users/joshua/test/include
  Symlinking /Users/joshua/test/include/python3.5m
  Creating /Users/joshua/test/bin
  New python executable in /Users/joshua/test/bin/python
  Changed mode of /Users/joshua/test/bin/python to 0o755
  Testing executable with /Users/joshua/test/bin/python -c "import sys;out=sys.stdout;getattr(out, "buffer", out).write(sys.prefix.encode("utf-8"))"
  ERROR: The executable /Users/joshua/test/bin/python is not functioning
  ERROR: It thinks sys.prefix is '/Users/joshua' (should be '/Users/joshua/test')
  ERROR: virtualenv is not compatible with this system or executable
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>here's current bash_profile:</p>
  
  <pre><code># Enable tab completion
  source ~/git-completion.bash
  
  # colors!
  green="\[\033[0;32m\]"
  blue="\[\033[0;34m\]"
  purple="\[\033[0;35m\]"
  reset="\[\033[0m\]"
  
  # Change command prompt
  source ~/git-prompt.sh
  export GIT_PS1_SHOWDIRTYSTATE=1
  # '\u' adds the name of the current user to the prompt
  # '\$(__git_ps1)' adds git-related stuff
  # '\W' adds the name of the current directory
  export PS1="$purple\u$green\$(__git_ps1)$blue \W $ $reset"
  
  alias subl="/Applications/Sublime\ Text.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl"
  
  # Add Path
  export PATH="$HOME/anaconda/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:$PATH"
  # export PATH=$PATH:/users/Joshua/anaconda/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin
  
  # Locale 
  $ export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
  $ export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
  </code></pre>