Function missing virtualenv.create_environment

[Alex2761]

Hi,

I haven't found any commit or changelog for this change, therefore I create this ticket.
If I'm wrong about this please just close the ticket.
As the title says the function is no longer available

H:>pip install --upgrade virtualenv
Collecting virtualenv
Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/51/89/6f2827025b28eee6236b1905555b0fbe1749f27bcbd3732ee137c31a21a8/virtualenv-20.0.2-py2.py3-none-any.whl (4.6MB)
100% |████████████████████████████████| 4.6MB 1.1MB/s
Requirement already satisfied, skipping upgrade: filelock<4,>=3.0.0 in c:\python37-32\lib\site-packages (from virtualenv) (3.0.12)
Requirement already satisfied, skipping upgrade: appdirs<2,>=1.4.3 in c:\python37-32\lib\site-packages (from virtualenv) (1.4.3)
Requirement already satisfied, skipping upgrade: importlib-metadata<2,>=0.12; python_version < "3.8" in c:\python37-32\lib\site-packages (from virtualenv) (1.5.0)
Requirement already satisfied, skipping upgrade: six<2,>=1.12.0 in c:\python37-32\lib\site-packages (from virtualenv) (1.12.0)
Requirement already satisfied, skipping upgrade: distlib<1,>=0.3.0 in c:\python37-32\lib\site-packages (from virtualenv) (0.3.0)
Requirement already satisfied, skipping upgrade: zipp>=0.5 in c:\python37-32\lib\site-packages (from importlib-metadata<2,>=0.12; python_version < "3.8"->virtualenv) (2.2.0)
Installing collected packages: virtualenv
Found existing installation: virtualenv 16.7.9
Uninstalling virtualenv-16.7.9:
Successfully uninstalled virtualenv-16.7.9
Successfully installed virtualenv-20.0.2
You are using pip version 19.0.3, however version 20.0.2 is available.
You should consider upgrading via the 'python -m pip install --upgrade pip' command.

H:>python
Python 3.7.3 (v3.7.3:ef4ec6ed12, Mar 25 2019, 21:26:53) [MSC v.1916 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

import virtualenv
virtualenv.create_environment
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
AttributeError: module 'virtualenv' has no attribute 'create_environment'
virtualenv.create_environment

OS: Windows 10
pip list
Package Version

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appdirs 1.4.3
certifi 2019.6.16
chardet 3.0.4
Click 7.0
colorama 0.4.1
distlib 0.3.0
filelock 3.0.12
idna 2.8
importlib-metadata 1.5.0
keyboard 0.13.4
mongoquery 1.3.5
munch 2.3.2
numpy 1.17.2
paho-mqtt 1.4.0
pandas 0.25.1
pip 19.0.3
pipenv 2018.11.26
plotly 4.1.1
psutil 5.6.3
pymongo 3.9.0
python-dateutil 2.8.0
pytz 2019.3
PyYAML 5.1.2
requests 2.22.0
retrying 1.3.3
setuptools 40.8.0
six 1.12.0
urllib3 1.25.6
virtualenv 20.0.2
virtualenv-clone 0.5.3
zipp 2.2.0

[gaborbernat]

With the new major release we've changed the api, now you should be using run_via_cli method, though you might need to import it from virtualenv.run 🤔

[schinckel]

Any idea when this was removed? It's breaking my workflow using poetry, and I'd like to be able to restore to a version that works.

[schinckel]

Ah, it seems to be there in 16.7.9

[gaborbernat]

It was removed as part of the rewrite effort.

[gaborbernat]

Hello, a fix for this issue has been released via virtualenv 20.0.2; see https://pypi.org/project/virtualenv/20.0.3/ (https://virtualenv.pypa.io/en/latest/changelog.html#v20-0-3-2020-02-12) . Please give a try and report back if your issue has not been addressed; if not, please comment here, and we'll reopen the ticket. We want to apologize for the inconvenience this has caused you and say thanks for having patience while we resolve the unexpected bugs with this new major release.