'_remove_dead_weakref' error after upgrading to Ubuntu 17.10

Well, after finally getting my Flask app running and returning data, I upgraded my system to Ubuntu 17.10 (from 17.04).  Today, I tried to start my flask app and was greeted with a bunch of Python error output and the following error:

ImportError: cannot import name '_remove_dead_weakref'

I was baffled as the app worked the day before.  So after some digging around the Googles, I found that the issue was caused by my upgrade to 17.10.

The fix....... delete your virtual environment and rebuild it.  I am not saying delete your project directory, I am saying delete your envs directory (which is where the executables for the virtual environment are.  Some people put it in the same directory.  If you are like me, you have a central location where you keep them. 

You will need to remove that entire directory, rebuild it and then re-run the virtualenv command to create the virtualized environment and then install any modules that you had previously installed (as they get stored in the directory structure you just deleted.  After that, your app and its parts should work fine.