stripe not working as expected when installed via pip into a virtualenv about stripe-python HOT 6 CLOSED

Hi Brandon -

Sorry this sat for a little while! We're working to improve our processes to make sure these issues get handled promptly, so hopefully it won't happen again in the future.

I definitely agree about virtualenv, and we do want to make sure that our bindings work with virtualenv. Could you give me some more information about how you were trying to use the API, or ideally some commands that I could run? I wasn't able to reproduce the issue you described using the example code from our API docs. Here's what I tried:

evan@caron:~$ virtualenv --no-site-packages piptest
New python executable in piptest/bin/python
[...]
evan@caron:~$ piptest/bin/pip install --index-url https://code.stripe.com stripe
[...]
evan@caron:~$ piptest/bin/python
Python 2.7.2+ (default, Oct  4 2011, 20:06:09)
[GCC 4.6.1] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import stripe
>>> stripe.api_key = '[redacted]'
>>> stripe.Token.create(card={"number": '4242424242424242', "exp_month": '12', "exp_year": '2012', "cvc": '123'}, currency="usd")
<Token token id=tok_e1MflizsrUD41m at 0x7f05d1526690> JSON: {
  "amount": 0,
  "card": {
    "country": "US",
    "cvc_check": "pass",
    "exp_month": 12,
    "exp_year": 2012,
    "fingerprint": "0mnpdUGNQJK5M6xL",
    "last4": "4242",
    "object": "card",
    "type": "Visa"
  },
  "created": 1334874173,
  "currency": "usd",
  "id": "tok_e1MflizsrUD41m",
  "livemode": false,
  "object": "token",
  "used": false
}

Thanks, and sorry again for the delay!

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Hi Evan,

Thanks for getting back to me. Sorry I'm late replying as well. We had a app demo today, and my team has been working around the clock for a week trying to make today's deadline.

For whatever reason, Stripe just seemed to suddenly work for me one day, and has since worked like a charm; I've been able to continue integration of the Python API into my app just fine. It's a great service, and so much easier to work with than the alternatives!

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Great, I'm glad things are working for you. I'll go ahead and close this issue out, but feel free to re-open it (or a new one) if you can figure out what was going wrong.

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I had the same problem when I originally tried it with sudo pip install --index-url https://code.stripe.com --upgrade stripe command.
and the Stripe package was not being installed in the virtualenv and rather it was being installed in system python.
The work around the problem was to download the package manually from their site and extract it to a temp location and then run python setup.py install from that folder while you have your virtualenv activated.

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There should definitely never be any reason to run pip with sudo, and doing so will always escape from the virtualenv you were running in (sudo will reset the environment). Running pip without sudo should work as long as the virtualenv is activated.

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correct. My mistake. Daaaah. Thanks for reminder.

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