AssertionError while creating virtualenv on windows 7

[ionelmc]

I'm running "virtualenv ve" on 64bit windows with virtualenv 1.7.2 and I get this:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "D:\Python27\Scripts\virtualenv-script.py", line 9, in <module>
    load_entry_point('virtualenv==1.7.2', 'console_scripts', 'virtualenv')()
  File "d:\python27\lib\site-packages\virtualenv.py", line 942, in main
    never_download=options.never_download)
  File "d:\python27\lib\site-packages\virtualenv.py", line 1043, in create_environment
    site_packages=site_packages, clear=clear))
  File "d:\python27\lib\site-packages\virtualenv.py", line 1188, in install_python
    copy_required_modules(home_dir)
  File "d:\python27\lib\site-packages\virtualenv.py", line 1140, in copy_required_modules
    dst_filename = change_prefix(filename, dst_prefix)
  File "d:\python27\lib\site-packages\virtualenv.py", line 1115, in change_prefix
    (filename, prefixes)
AssertionError: Filename d:\python27\lib\site-packages\readline.py does not start with any of these prefixes: ['D:\\Python27']

[carljm]

Looks like some path case and slash normalization is needed.

[imbaczek]

got the exact same error message just now, except i've got python installed on c: instead of d:.

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