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error: invalid command 'egg_info'

ID: python/setuptools-invalid-command-egg-info

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80%Fix Rate
88%Confidence
0Evidence
2024-03-30First Seen

Version Compatibility

VersionStatusIntroducedDeprecatedNotes
3.9 active — — —
3.10 active — — —

Root Cause

setuptools not installed or shadowed by an incompatible distutils in the build environment.

generic

中文

构建环境中未安装 setuptools，或被不兼容的 distutils 遮蔽。

Workarounds

  1. 95% success 
    python -m pip install -U pip setuptools wheel
  2. 85% success 
    python -m pip install . --use-pep517

Dead Ends

Common approaches that don't work:

  1. 90% fail

    Same missing setuptools command; fails identically.

  2. 85% fail

    Overkill; the issue is the packaging toolchain, not the interpreter.