[Python] ImportError: cannot import name 'text_encoding' from 'io' (unknown location)

I've been trying to open up a virtual environment. I can open scrapy from anaconda powershell prompt, but I can't use it in the virtual environment. I have created the environment by using the command:

C:\Python310\Scripts\virtualenv.exe C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3


I have also started the virtual environment using the command:

C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\Scripts\activate.bat


But I when I try using this command,

scrapy shell


it gives this error:

Fatal Python error: init_sys_streams: can't initialize sys standard streams
Python runtime state: core initialized
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Python310\lib\io.py", line 54, in <module>
ImportError: cannot import name 'text_encoding' from 'io' (unknown location)


I installed the virtual environment module with this command:

pip install virtualenv


But there are nothing like "activate.bat" in my scripts folder (C:\Python310\Scripts) instead there is the file "virtualenv.exe". However there is a scripts folder in my virtual environment (C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\Scripts) which has the file "activate.bat".

How can I fix the error? Am I doing something wrong? Thank you.

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