For my setup (python from brew), I should run this to install virtualenv

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/usr/local/share/python/pip install  virtualenv

For some reason I do not understand I had a very old version of easy_install in /usr/local/bin which I use for brew binaries.

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$ ls -l /usr/local/bin/easy_install
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  364 28 Feb  2009 /usr/local/bin/easy_install

The shebang of easy_install is sTILl pointing to a python 2.5 installation

Install python 2.7 using brew. Brew also downloaded and installed distribute

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$ brew install python ==> Installing python dependency: sqlite ==> Downloading

http://www.sqlite.org/sqlite-autoconf-3070900.tar.gz

http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gdbm/gdbm-1.10.tar.gz

http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.7.2/Python-2.7.2.tar.bz2

http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/d/distribute/distribute-0.6.24.tar.gz

https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/wiki/Homebrew-and-Python

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