.. blogpost::
:title: Issue with setuptools and pip
:keywords: pip, setuptools
:date: 2020-09-30
:categories: automation
I got the following error which I resolved by
updating `setuptools `_.
But quite a difficult error message to interpret.
::
File "python3.7/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pep517/wrappers.py", line 265, in _call_hook
raise BackendUnavailable(data.get('traceback', ''))
pip._vendor.pep517.wrappers.BackendUnavailable: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "python3.7/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pep517/_in_process.py", line 86, in _build_backend
obj = import_module(mod_path)
File "python3.7/importlib/__init__.py", line 127, in import_module
return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
File "", line 1006, in _gcd_import
File "", line 983, in _find_and_load
File "", line 953, in _find_and_load_unlocked
File "", line 219, in _call_with_frames_removed
File "", line 1006, in _gcd_import
File "", line 983, in _find_and_load
File "", line 967, in _find_and_load_unlocked
File "", line 677, in _load_unlocked
File "", line 728, in exec_module
File "", line 219, in _call_with_frames_removed
File "python3.7/site-packages/setuptools/__init__.py", line 5, in
import distutils.core
File "python3.7/site-packages/_distutils_hack/__init__.py", line 83, in create_module
return importlib.import_module('setuptools._distutils')
File "python3.7/importlib/__init__.py", line 127, in import_module
return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'setuptools._distutils'