# Buggy code
def run():
    """print debug data about the virtual environment"""
    try:
        from collections import OrderedDict
    except ImportError:  # pragma: no cover
        # this is possible if the standard library cannot be accessed
        # noinspection PyPep8Naming
        OrderedDict = dict  # pragma: no cover
    result = OrderedDict([("sys", OrderedDict())])
    path_keys = (
        "executable",
        "_base_executable",
        "prefix",
        "base_prefix",
        "real_prefix",
        "exec_prefix",
        "base_exec_prefix",
        "path",
        "meta_path",
    )
    for key in path_keys:
        value = getattr(sys, key, None)
        if isinstance(value, list):
            value = encode_list_path(value)
        else:
            value = encode_path(value)
        result["sys"][key] = value
    result["sys"]["fs_encoding"] = sys.getfilesystemencoding()
    result["sys"]["io_encoding"] = getattr(sys.stdout, "encoding", None)
    result["version"] = sys.version
    import os  # landmark

    result["os"] = repr(os)

    try:
        # noinspection PyUnresolvedReferences
        import site  # site

        result["site"] = repr(site)
    except ImportError as exception:  # pragma: no cover
        result["site"] = repr(exception)  # pragma: no cover

    try:
        # noinspection PyUnresolvedReferences
        import datetime  # site

        result["datetime"] = repr(datetime)
    except ImportError as exception:  # pragma: no cover
        result["datetime"] = repr(exception)  # pragma: no cover

    # try to print out, this will validate if other core modules are available (json in this case)
    try:
        import json

        result["json"] = repr(json)
        print(json.dumps(result, indent=2))
    except (ImportError, ValueError, TypeError) as exception:  # pragma: no cover
        result["json"] = repr(exception)  # pragma: no cover
        print(repr(result))  # pragma: no cover
        raise SystemExit(1)  # pragma: no cover


# Traceback (ModuleNotFoundError)
$ <scl_base>/bin/virtualenv --python <scl_base>/bin/python --always-copy --verbose TEST
Running virtualenv with interpreter <scl_base>/bin/python
Using base prefix '<scl_base>'
Creating <somedir>/TEST/lib/python3.6
Copying to <somedir>/TEST/lib64
Symlinking Python bootstrap modules
Copying to <somedir>/TEST/lib/python3.6/config-3.6m-x86_64-linux-gnu
Copying to <somedir>/TEST/lib/python3.6/lib-dynload
Copying to <somedir>/TEST/lib64/python3.6/os.py
Ignoring built-in bootstrap module: posix
Copying to <somedir>/TEST/lib64/python3.6/posixpath.py
Cannot import bootstrap module: nt
Copying to <somedir>/TEST/lib64/python3.6/ntpath.py
Copying to <somedir>/TEST/lib64/python3.6/genericpath.py
Copying to <somedir>/TEST/lib64/python3.6/fnmatch.py
Copying to <somedir>/TEST/lib64/python3.6/locale.py
Copying to <somedir>/TEST/lib64/python3.6/encodings
Copying to <somedir>/TEST/lib64/python3.6/codecs.py
Copying to <somedir>/TEST/lib64/python3.6/stat.py
Cannot import bootstrap module: UserDict
Creating parent directories for <somedir>/TEST/lib64/python3.6/lib-dynload
Copying to <somedir>/TEST/lib64/python3.6/lib-dynload/readline.cpython-36m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so
Cannot import bootstrap module: copy_reg
Copying to <somedir>/TEST/lib64/python3.6/types.py
Copying to <somedir>/TEST/lib64/python3.6/re.py
Cannot import bootstrap module: sre
Copying to <somedir>/TEST/lib64/python3.6/sre_parse.py
Copying to <somedir>/TEST/lib64/python3.6/sre_constants.py
Copying to <somedir>/TEST/lib64/python3.6/sre_compile.py
Copying to <somedir>/TEST/lib64/python3.6/lib-dynload/zlib.cpython-36m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so
Cannot import bootstrap module: _abcoll
Copying to <somedir>/TEST/lib64/python3.6/warnings.py
Copying to <somedir>/TEST/lib64/python3.6/linecache.py
Copying to <somedir>/TEST/lib64/python3.6/abc.py
Copying to <somedir>/TEST/lib64/python3.6/io.py
Copying to <somedir>/TEST/lib64/python3.6/_weakrefset.py
Copying to <somedir>/TEST/lib64/python3.6/copyreg.py
Copying to <somedir>/TEST/lib64/python3.6/tempfile.py
Copying to <somedir>/TEST/lib64/python3.6/random.py
Copying to <somedir>/TEST/lib64/python3.6/__future__.py
Copying to <somedir>/TEST/lib64/python3.6/collections
Copying to <somedir>/TEST/lib64/python3.6/keyword.py
Copying to <somedir>/TEST/lib64/python3.6/tarfile.py
Copying to <somedir>/TEST/lib64/python3.6/shutil.py
Copying to <somedir>/TEST/lib64/python3.6/struct.py
Copying to <somedir>/TEST/lib64/python3.6/copy.py
Copying to <somedir>/TEST/lib64/python3.6/tokenize.py
Copying to <somedir>/TEST/lib64/python3.6/token.py
Copying to <somedir>/TEST/lib64/python3.6/functools.py
Copying to <somedir>/TEST/lib64/python3.6/heapq.py
Copying to <somedir>/TEST/lib64/python3.6/bisect.py
Copying to <somedir>/TEST/lib64/python3.6/weakref.py
Copying to <somedir>/TEST/lib64/python3.6/reprlib.py
Copying to <somedir>/TEST/lib64/python3.6/base64.py
Copying to <somedir>/TEST/lib64/python3.6/_dummy_thread.py
Copying to <somedir>/TEST/lib64/python3.6/hashlib.py
Copying to <somedir>/TEST/lib64/python3.6/hmac.py
Copying to <somedir>/TEST/lib64/python3.6/imp.py
Copying to <somedir>/TEST/lib64/python3.6/importlib
Copying to <somedir>/TEST/lib64/python3.6/rlcompleter.py
Copying to <somedir>/TEST/lib64/python3.6/operator.py
Copying to <somedir>/TEST/lib64/python3.6/_collections_abc.py
Copying to <somedir>/TEST/lib64/python3.6/_bootlocale.py
Copying to <somedir>/TEST/lib64/python3.6/enum.py
No LICENSE.txt / LICENSE found in source
Creating <somedir>/TEST/lib/python3.6/site-packages
Writing <somedir>/TEST/lib64/python3.6/site.py
Writing <somedir>/TEST/lib64/python3.6/orig-prefix.txt
Writing <somedir>/TEST/lib64/python3.6/no-global-site-packages.txt
Creating <somedir>/TEST/bin
New python executable in <somedir>/TEST/bin/python
Changed mode of <somedir>/TEST/bin/python to 0o775
Copying to <somedir>/TEST/bin/python3
Copying to <somedir>/TEST/bin/python3.6
Testing executable with <somedir>/TEST/bin/python -c "import sys;out=sys.stdout;getattr(out, "buffer", out).write(sys.prefix.encode("utf-8"))"
Got sys.prefix result: '<somedir>/TEST'
Creating <somedir>/TEST/lib64/python3.6/distutils
Writing <somedir>/TEST/lib64/python3.6/distutils/__init__.py
Writing <somedir>/TEST/lib64/python3.6/distutils/distutils.cfg
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<scl_base>/lib64/python3.6/runpy.py", line 193, in _run_module_as_main
"__main__", mod_spec)
File "<scl_base>/lib64/python3.6/runpy.py", line 85, in _run_code
exec(code, run_globals)
File "<scl_base>/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/virtualenv_support/pip-19.0.3-py2.py3-none-any.whl/pip/__main__.py", line 16, in <module>
File "<scl_base>/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/virtualenv_support/pip-19.0.3-py2.py3-none-any.whl/pip/_internal/__init__.py", line 19, in <module>
File "<scl_base>/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/virtualenv_support/pip-19.0.3-py2.py3-none-any.whl/pip/_vendor/urllib3/__init__.py", line 8, in <module>
File "<scl_base>/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/virtualenv_support/pip-19.0.3-py2.py3-none-any.whl/pip/_vendor/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 7, in <module>
File "<scl_base>/lib64/python3.6/socket.py", line 49, in <module>
import _socket
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named '_socket'
Command <somedir>/TEST/bin/python -m pip config list had error code 1
Installing setuptools, pip, wheel...

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 4, in <module>
File "<somedir>/TEST/lib64/python3.6/tempfile.py", line 45, in <module>
from random import Random as _Random
File "<somedir>/TEST/lib64/python3.6/random.py", line 42, in <module>
from math import log as _log, exp as _exp, pi as _pi, e as _e, ceil as _ceil
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'math'
Complete output from command <somedir>/TEST/bin/python - setuptools pip wheel:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 4, in <module>
File "<somedir>/TEST/lib64/python3.6/tempfile.py", line 45, in <module>
from random import Random as _Random
File "<somedir>/TEST/lib64/python3.6/random.py", line 42, in <module>
from math import log as _log, exp as _exp, pi as _pi, e as _e, ceil as _ceil
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'math'
----------------------------------------
...Installing setuptools, pip, wheel...done.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<scl_base>/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/virtualenv.py", line 2567, in <module>
main()
File "<scl_base>/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/virtualenv.py", line 793, in main
symlink=options.symlink,
File "<scl_base>/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/virtualenv.py", line 1088, in create_environment
install_wheel(to_install, py_executable, search_dirs, download=download)
File "<scl_base>/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/virtualenv.py", line 935, in install_wheel
_install_wheel_with_search_dir(download, project_names, py_executable, search_dirs)
File "<scl_base>/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/virtualenv.py", line 1025, in _install_wheel_with_search_dir
call_subprocess(cmd, show_stdout=False, extra_env=env, stdin=script)
File "<scl_base>/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/virtualenv.py", line 886, in call_subprocess
raise OSError("Command {} failed with error code {}".format(cmd_desc, proc.returncode))
OSError: Command <somedir>/TEST/bin/python - setuptools pip wheel failed with error code 1

# Fixed code
def run():
    """print debug data about the virtual environment"""
    try:
        from collections import OrderedDict
    except ImportError:  # pragma: no cover
        # this is possible if the standard library cannot be accessed
        # noinspection PyPep8Naming
        OrderedDict = dict  # pragma: no cover
    result = OrderedDict([("sys", OrderedDict())])
    path_keys = (
        "executable",
        "_base_executable",
        "prefix",
        "base_prefix",
        "real_prefix",
        "exec_prefix",
        "base_exec_prefix",
        "path",
        "meta_path",
    )
    for key in path_keys:
        value = getattr(sys, key, None)
        if isinstance(value, list):
            value = encode_list_path(value)
        else:
            value = encode_path(value)
        result["sys"][key] = value
    result["sys"]["fs_encoding"] = sys.getfilesystemencoding()
    result["sys"]["io_encoding"] = getattr(sys.stdout, "encoding", None)
    result["version"] = sys.version
    import os  # landmark

    result["os"] = repr(os)

    try:
        # noinspection PyUnresolvedReferences
        import site  # site

        result["site"] = repr(site)
    except ImportError as exception:  # pragma: no cover
        result["site"] = repr(exception)  # pragma: no cover

    try:
        # noinspection PyUnresolvedReferences
        import datetime  # site

        result["datetime"] = repr(datetime)
    except ImportError as exception:  # pragma: no cover
        result["datetime"] = repr(exception)  # pragma: no cover

    try:
        # noinspection PyUnresolvedReferences
        import math  # site

        result["math"] = repr(math)
    except ImportError as exception:  # pragma: no cover
        result["math"] = repr(exception)  # pragma: no cover

    # try to print out, this will validate if other core modules are available (json in this case)
    try:
        import json

        result["json"] = repr(json)
        print(json.dumps(result, indent=2))
    except (ImportError, ValueError, TypeError) as exception:  # pragma: no cover
        result["json"] = repr(exception)  # pragma: no cover
        print(repr(result))  # pragma: no cover
        raise SystemExit(1)  # pragma: no cover