No module name '_ctypes' while creating new virtualenv

When I tried to create virtualenv with python3.7 (

virtualenv -p /usr/local/bin/python3.7

on one of my fresh VPS I faced

no module name '_ctypes'

You should perform these steps to fix it:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libffi-dev

If you still have same error then you probably installed python3.7 by yourself from source codes. If so just repeat this installation:

cd /usr/src
wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.7.4/Python-3.7.4.tgz
sudo tar xzf Python-3.7.4.tgz
cd Python-3.7.4
sudo ./configure --enable-optimizations
sudo make altinstall

:hint if you have more than one cpu core, then you can speed up make stage by:

sudo make altinstall -j <number_of_cores>

:hint

cat /proc/cpuinfo

- shows you the information about your CPUs