For a few hours I was running into a problem whenever I would try to install my PIP requirements file. The install would go alright until it got to Distribute, at which point I would get an that ended up in a stack trace with:
Could not find the/lib/python2.7/site-packages/site.py element of the Setuptools distribution
After much searching and digging, the issue was that my virtual environment needed to be instantiated with the –distribute flag.
virtualenv venv --distribute |
Problem solved.