Eclipse and Google App Engine: ImportError: No module named _sysconfigdata_nd; unrecognized arguments: --high_replication

Solution 1:

The "No module named _sysconfigdata_nd" is a bug in the Ubuntu package.

You can create a softlink as a workaround:

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/python2.7/plat-*/_sysconfigdata_nd.py /usr/lib/python2.7/

Solution 2:

Depending on different conditions, updating virtualenv may actually be a better idea instead of this walkaround, as mentioned on linked bug reports. To update virtualenv you could use the following command:

sudo pip install --upgrade virtualenv