🔒 Virtual Environment Creation Error

[ripe idol]

How to fix this? someone assist me ;w;. Been trying to create a virtual environment but it keeps showing this 😭

USER\\OneDrive\\Documents\\Saberforce Promos\\R2D2\\.venv'
2025-02-09 11:09:51.990 [info] Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "c:\Users\HP USER\.vscode\extensions\ms-python.python-2025.0.0-win32-x64\python_files\create_venv.py", line 96, in run_process
2025-02-09 11:09:51.991 [info]     subprocess.run(args, cwd=os.getcwd(), check=True)  # noqa: PTH109
2025-02-09 11:09:51.991 [info]     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
2025-02-09 11:09:51.991 [info] ^^
  File "C:\Users\HP USER\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python312\Lib\subprocess.py", line 571, in run
2025-02-09 11:09:51.992 [info]     raise CalledProcessError(retcode, process.args,
subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '['C:\\Users\\HP USER\\AppData\\Local\\Programs\\Python\\Python312\\python.exe', '-m', 'venv', '.venv']' returned non-zero exit status 1.

The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "c:\Users\HP USER\.vscode\extensions\ms-python.python-2025.0.0-win32-x64\python_files\create_venv.py", line 262, in <module>
2025-02-09 11:09:51.992 [info]     main(sys.argv[1:])
  File "c:\Users\HP USER\.vscode\extensions\ms-python.python-2025.0.0-win32-x64\python_files\create_venv.py", line 231, in main
2025-02-09 11:09:51.992 [info]     run_process(
  File "c:\Users\HP USER\.vscode\extensions\ms-python.python-2025.0.0-win32-x64\python_files\create_venv.py", line 98, in run_process
2025-02-09 11:09:51.992 [info]     raise VenvError(error_message) from exc
VenvError: CREATE_VENV.VENV_FAILED_CREATION
2025-02-09 11:09:52.015 [error] Error while running venv creation script:  CREATE_VENV.VENV_FAILED_CREATION
2025-02-09 11:09:52.016 [error] CREATE_VENV.VENV_FAILED_CREATION

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@ripe idol

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[blazing thistle]

i don't know if it's the cause of the problem you are experiencing, but i've seen people having trouble running python in a OneDrive connected directory a few times before

also, have you tried using py -m venv .venv instead of python -m venv .venv?

[ripe idol]

The system cannot find the file specified: 'C:\Users\HP USER\OneDrive\Documents\Saberforce Promos\R2D2\.venv'

already

[blazing thistle]

and have you tried to create the project in a path not under OneDrive?

[ripe idol]

hold on

[blazing thistle]

another thing we often see here is people on windows having problem with python downloaded from microsoft store, we generally recommend uninstalling it and then downloading and installing python from the official site: https://www.python.org/downloads/ (check the box about adding python to the path on the bottom of the first screen)
then use py -m venv .venv instead of python -m venv .venv

[ripe idol]

ok

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