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ERROR: Could not build wheels for cryptography which use PEP 517 and cannot be installed directly

I get an error when pip builds wheels for the cryptography package.
Error:
LINK : fatal error LNK1181: cannot open input file 'libssl.lib'
error: command 'C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Visual Studio\\2017\\BuildTools\\VC\\Tools\\MSVC\\14.16.27023\\bin\\HostX86\\x86\\link.exe' failed with exit status 1181
----------------------------------------
ERROR: Failed building wheel for cryptography
Running setup.py clean for cryptography
Failed to build cryptography
ERROR: Could not build wheels for cryptography which use PEP 517 and cannot be installed directly
I have already installed OpenSSL and set the environment variables as suggested in this post yet the problem persists. My setup details:
System - Windows 10
Python - 3.8
Pip - 19.3.1

In my case (windows 10 + conda) updating pip fixed the problem:
python -m pip install --upgrade pip

Setting cryptography to version 2.8 in requirements.txt fixed the issue.

TLDR;
Try using cryptography==3.1.1
Details:
This happened on Python 3.9.0 on Windows 10 PC.
I had the following in requirements.txt
cryptography==2.8
I removed the version and kept only cryptography in requirements.txt file like below
cryptography
Saved the requirements.txt and then I ran
pip install -r requirements.txt
It installed successfully.
Then I freeze the requirements.txt by running the following command
pip freeze > requirements.txt
Then the requirements.txt got updated with cryptography==3.1.1

Had also this issue. If you're using alpine, make sure that all dependencies for cryptography are installed.
In my case the cargo package was missing and causing the issue.
sudo apk add gcc musl-dev python3-dev libffi-dev openssl-dev cargo
https://cryptography.io/en/latest/installation.html#building-cryptography-on-linux

Ran into this issue, and the solution is actually in the message when pip attempts to install openssl before cryptography:
generating cffi module 'build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.7/_openssl.c'
running build_rust
=============================DEBUG ASSISTANCE=============================
If you are seeing a compilation error please try the following steps to
successfully install cryptography:
1) Upgrade to the latest pip and try again. This will fix errors for most
users. See: https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/installing/#upgrading-pip
2) Read https://cryptography.io/en/latest/installation.html for specific
instructions for your platform.
3) Check our frequently asked questions for more information:
https://cryptography.io/en/latest/faq.html
4) Ensure you have a recent Rust toolchain installed:
https://cryptography.io/en/latest/installation.html#rust
5) If you are experiencing issues with Rust for *this release only* you may
set the environment variable `CRYPTOGRAPHY_DONT_BUILD_RUST=1`.
=============================DEBUG ASSISTANCE=============================
Simply running the pip update command appeared to work for me:
pip install -U pip
Which updated pip from version 18.0 to version 21.0.1

I faced this issue on macOS Monterey (version 12.2.1) Apple M1 Pro. I followed Cryptography installation documentation and it helped me resolve the issue.
brew install openssl#1.1 rust
env CRYPTOGRAPHY_SUPPRESS_LINK_FLAGS=1 LDFLAGS="$(brew --prefix openssl#1.1)/lib/libssl.a $(brew --prefix openssl#1.1)/lib/libcrypto.a" CFLAGS="-I$(brew --prefix openssl#1.1)/include" pip3 install cryptography

You can use the lastest version with
python3 -m pip install --no-use-pep517 cryptography
worked for me with ubuntu:18.04 on arm32v7
(instead as suggested by the error message install the full rust compiler and build-essentials, or upgrading pip (what had no effect on ubuntu:18.04 on my armbian))

pip install --upgrade pip
Try to upgrade pip of your environment working fine for me.

I got this error trying to install Scrapy with Python 3.8.1 on Windows 10, but its solved installing the last version of pip (19.3.1 in my case) and all works using pip in this way:
python -m pip install scrapy --user

I have faced same issue and tried to install openssl with mentioned step but still was not able to proceed for windows 10. Later I upgraded pip to latest version and tried again and it worked without any issue.
I would recommend to upgrade pip to latest version and give a try before proceeding for installing openssl

I had the same issue. pip3 version was 19.* after upgrade it works
sudo -H pip3 install --upgrade pip

You can try to install cryptography==3.1.1 package instead of cryptography 35 version.
pip install cryptography==3.1.1
If still you are facing challenges in cryptography package integration.
You can resolve that by the following steps.
python -m pip install --upgrade pip
sudo pip install -U pip setuptools

I had this problem and i just installed rust and problem fixed for me
You can install end version of cryptography after installing rust programming languege(dont try pip install rust, its not python package)
https://www.rust-lang.org/tools/install

Just updating pip
python -m pip install --upgrade pip

I did not install the latest version of Scrapy, then it worked for me. Instead of installing version 2.6.3, I installed 2.6.2:
pip install Scrapy==2.6.2
I use PyCharm 2022.2.3 (Professional Edition) on Windows.

Keep getting the "Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1" [duplicate]

I'm trying to install some packages with pip.
But pip install unroll gives me
Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in
C:\Users\MARKAN~1\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-wa7uco0k\unroll\
How can I solve this?

About the error code
According to the Python documentation:
This module makes available standard errno system symbols. The value of each symbol is the corresponding integer value. The names and descriptions are borrowed from linux/include/errno.h, which should be pretty all-inclusive.
Error code 1 is defined in errno.h and means Operation not permitted.
About your error
Your setuptools do not appear to be installed. Just follow the Installation Instructions from the PyPI website.
If it's already installed, try
pip install --upgrade setuptools
If it's already up to date, check that the module ez_setup is not missing. If it is, then
pip install ez_setup
Then try again
pip install unroll
If it's still not working, maybe pip didn't install/upgrade setup_tools properly so you might want to try
easy_install -U setuptools
And again
pip install unroll

Here's a little guide explaining a little bit how I usually install new packages on Python + Windows. It seems you're using Windows paths, so this answer will stick to that particular SO:
I never use a system-wide Python installation. I only use virtualenvs, and usually I try to have the latest version of 2.x & 3.x.
My first attempt is always doing pip install package_i_want in some of my Visual Studio command prompts. What Visual Studio command prompt? Well, ideally the Visual Studio which matches the one which was used to build Python. For instance, let's say your Python installation says Python 2.7.11 (v2.7.11:6d1b6a68f775, Dec 5 2015, 20:40:30) [MSC v.1500 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32. The version of Visual Studio used to compile Python can be found here, so v1500 means I'd be using vs2008 x64 command prompt
If the previous step failed for some reason I just try using easy_install package_i_want
If the previous step failed for some reason I go to gohlke website and I check whether my package is available over there. If it's so, I'm lucky, I just download it into my virtualenv and then I just go to that location using a command prompt and I do pip install package_i_want.whl
If the previous step didn't succeed I'll just try to build the wheel myself and once it's generated I'll try to install it with pip install package_i_want.whl
Now, if we focus in your specific problem, where you're having a hard time installing the unroll package. It seems the fastest way to install it is doing something like this:
git clone https://github.com/Zulko/unroll
cd unroll && python setup.py bdist_wheel
Copy the generated unroll-0.1.0-py2-none-any.whl file from the created dist folder into your virtualenv.
pip install unroll-0.1.0-py2-none-any.whl
That way it will install without any problems. To check it really works, just login into the Python installation and try import unroll, it shouldn't complain.
One last note: This method works almost 99% of the time, and sometimes you'll find some pip packages which are specific to Unix or Mac OS X, in that case, when that happens I'm afraid the best way to get a Windows version is either posting some issues to the main developers or having some fun by yourself porting to Windows (typically a few hours if you're not lucky) :)

It was resolved after upgrading pip:
python -m pip install --upgrade pip
pip install "package-name"

I got stuck exactly with the same error with psycopg2. It looks like I skipped a few steps while installing Python and related packages.
sudo apt-get install python-dev libpq-dev
Go to your virtual env
pip install psycopg2
(In your case you need to replace psycopg2 with the package you have an issue with.)
It worked seamlessly.

I got this same error while installing mitmproxy using pip3. The below command fixed this:
pip3 install --upgrade setuptools

Download and install the Microsoft Visual C++ Compiler for Python 2.7 from https://www.microsoft.com/en-in/download/details.aspx?id=44266 - this package contains the compiler and set of system headers necessary for producing binary wheels for Python 2.7 packages.
Open a command prompt in elevated mode (run as administrator)
Firstly do pip install ez_setup
Then do pip install unroll (It will start installing numpy, music21, decorator, imageio, tqdm, moviepy, unroll) # Please be patient for music21 installation
Python 2.7.11 64 bit used

Other way:
sudo apt-get install python-psycopg2 python-mysqldb

I had the same issue when installing the "Twisted" library and solved it by running the following command on Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus):
sudo apt-get install python-setuptools python-dev build-essential

It's a dependency issue.
I tried running the following commands helped me sorting out the dependencies, in my case the dependency was
grpcio
pip3 install --upgrade pip
python3 -m pip install --upgrade setuptools
pip3 install --no-cache-dir --force-reinstall -Iv grpcio==1.36.1
pip3 install pulsar-client==2.7.0
remember you must have python3 installed in your system.

First try:
pip install unroll
For sure not work :)
Then Try:
pip2 install unroll
Still get error Try:
pip3 install unroll
If pip3 Worked then suggest to change configuration to use pip3 as pip because you will get a lot of issues as the modern now is Python3 = pip3 if you execute a script files.

I had the same problem.
The problem was:
pyparsing 2.2 was already installed and my requirements.txt was trying to install pyparsing 2.0.1 which throw this error
Context: I was using virtualenv, and it seems the 2.2 came from my global OS Python site-packages, but even with --no-site-packages flag (now by default in last virtualenv) the 2.2 was still present. Surely because I installed Python from their website and it added Python libraries to my $PATH.
Maybe a pip install --ignore-installed would have worked.
Solution: as I needed to move forwards, I just removed the pyparsing==2.0.1 from my requirements.txt.

I ran into the same error code when trying to install a Python module with pip.
#Hackndo noted that the documentation indicate a security issue.
Based on that answer, my problem was solved by running the pip install command with sudo prefixed:
sudo pip install python-mpd2

For me this worked
python3 -m pip3 install -U pip
you can also try
python -m pip install -U pip

pip3 install --upgrade setuptools
WARNING: pip is being invoked by an old script wrapper. This will fail in a future version of pip.
Please see https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/5599 for advice on fixing the underlying issue.
To avoid this problem you can invoke Python with -m pip instead of running pip directly.
Use python3 -m pip "command", eg:
python3 -m pip install --user pyqt5

I tried all of the above with no success. I then updated my Python version from 2.7.10 to 2.7.13, and it resolved the problems that I was experiencing.

That means some packages in pip are old or not correctly installed.
Try checking version and then upgrading pip.Use auto remove if that works.
If the pip command shows an error all the time for any command or it freezes, etc.
The best solution is to uninstall it or remove it completely.
Install a fresh pip and then update and upgrade your system.
I have given a solution to installing pip fresh here - python: can't open file get-pip.py error 2] no such file or directory

next installation helps me:
pip3 install cython

This worked for me:
sudo xcodebuild -license

Upgrading Python to version 3 fixed my problem. Nothing else did.

I downloaded the .whl file from http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/ and then did:
pip install scipy-0.19.1-cp27-cp27m-win32.whl
Note that the version you need to use (win32/win_amd-64) depends on the version of Python and not that of Windows.

I had this problem using virtualenvs (with pipenv) on my new development setup.
I could only solve it by upgrading the psycopg2 version from 2.6.2 to 2.7.3.
More information is at https://github.com/psycopg/psycopg2/issues/594

I faced the same problem with the same error message but on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) instead:
Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-install-w71uo1rg/poster/
I tested all the solutions provided above and none of them worked for me. I read the full TraceBack and found out I had to create the virtual environment with Python version 2.7 instead (the default one uses Python 3.5 instead):
virtualenv --python=/usr/bin/python2.7 my_venv
Once I activated it, I run pip install unirest successfully.

try on linux:
sudo apt install python-pip python-bluez libbluetooth-dev libboost-python-dev libboost-thread-dev libglib2.0-dev bluez bluez-hcidump

Had the same problem on my Win10 PC with different packages and tried everything mentioned so far.
Finally solved it by disabling Comodo Auto-Containment.
Since nobody has mentioned it yet, I hope it helps someone.

I had the same problem and was able to fix by doing the following.
Windows Python needs Visual C++ libraries installed via the SDK to build code, such as via setuptools.extension.Extension or numpy.distutils.core.Extension. For example, building f2py modules in Windows with Python requires Visual C++ SDK as installed above. On Linux and Mac, the C++ libraries are installed with the compiler.
https://www.scivision.co/python-windows-visual-c++-14-required/

Following below command worked for me
[root#sandbox ~]# pip install google-api-python-client==1.6.4

Methods to solve setup.pu egg_info issue when updating setuptools or not other methods doesnot works.
If CONDA version of the library is available to install use conda instead of pip.
Clone the library repo and then try installation by pip install -e . or by python setup.py install

upgrading python's version did the work for me.

I have just encountered the same problem when trying to pip install -e . a new repo. I did not notice that the contents of setup.py haven't been saved properly and I was effectively running the command with an empty setup.py.
Hence you may experience the same error message if the setup.py of the target package is either empty or malformed.

I solved it on Centos 7 by using:
sudo yum install libcurl-devel

ImportError: The 'enchant' C library was not found. Please install it via your OS package manager, or use a pre-built binary wheel from PyPI

The question is why I see the error message in the title when trying to import enchant. I am using Win64.

On Ubuntu, run sudo apt-get install libenchant1c2a

I found the answer in this GitHub page.
In a nutshell, they have not shipped a wheel for the win_amd64 platform yet.

Resolved: On Win7-64 I ran
pip3 install pyenchant==1.6.6
which seems to be the latest version of PyEnchant that still shipped with Win-64 binaries. Newer versions did not install for me, but this one did.

For amazon ubuntu instance use.
yum install enchant
and then
pip install pyenchant

For me, the problem I ran into was that I had an old version of pip. I installed the latest version and was able to download the pyenchant library.
pip install -U pip

On Windows x64 I've solved this problem as follows:
Click link https://pypi.org/project/pyenchant/#files and download pyenchant-2.0.0.win32.exe
Launch it and while installing it using the installation wizard you must specify your python interpreter location which in my case is:
C:\Users\Asus\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36\python.exe
Important:İf you use python32 interpreter you must specify this location:
C:\Users\Asus\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\python.exe
if you use python 3.5 interpreter version your location may be like this:
C:\Users\Asus\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35\python.exe
and finish the installation. Pip commands will work now for other dependency packages.

On MacOS, you can install it via brew:
brew install enchant
pip install pyenchant

To run with docker on AWS:
With apt-get:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -y install enchant-2
With apt:
sudo apt update
sudo apt -y install enchant-2
Thank you

I have fix the bugs on the colab.
!apt update
!apt install enchant --fix-missing
After fixing the missing files, you could run the enchant.

Install numpy in Python virtualenv

I've created virtualenv for Python 2.7.4 on Ubuntu 13.04. I've installed python-dev.
I have the error when installing numpy in the virtualenv.
Maybe, you have any ideas to fix?

The problem is SystemError: Cannot compile 'Python.h'. Perhaps you need to install python-dev|python-devel.
so do the following in order to obtain 'Python.h'
make sure apt-get and gcc are up to date
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade gcc
then install the python2.7-dev
sudo apt-get install python2.7-dev
and I see that you have most probably already done the above things.
pip will eventually spit out another error for not being able to write into /user/bin/blahBlah/dist-packages/ or something like that because it couldn't figure out that it was supposed to install your desiredPackage (e.g. numpy) within the active env (the env created by virtualenv which you might have even changed directory to while doing all this)
so do this:
pip -E /some/path/env install desiredPackage
that should get the job done... hopefully :)
---Edit---
From PIP Version 1.1 onward, the command pip -E doesn't work. The following is an excerpt from the release notes of version 1.1 (https://pip.pypa.io/en/latest/news.html)
Removed -E/--environment option and PIP_RESPECT_VIRTUALENV; both use a restart-in-venv mechanism that's broken, and neither one is useful since every virtualenv now has pip inside it. Replace pip -E path/to/venv install Foo with virtualenv path/to/venv && path/to/venv/pip install Foo

If you're on Python3 you'll need to do sudo apt-get install python3-dev. Took me a little while to figure it out.

If you're hitting this issue even though you've installed all OS dependencies (python-devel, fortran compiler, etc), the issue might be instead related to the following bug:
"numpy installation thru install_requires directive issue..."
Work around is to manually install numpy in your (virtual) environment before running setup.py to install whatever you want to install that depends on numpy.
eg, pip install numpy then python ./setup.py install

This answer is for those of us that compiled python from source or installed it to a non standard directory. In my case, python2.7 was installed to /usr/local and the include files were installed to /usr/local/include/python2.7
C_INCLUDE_PATH=/usr/local/include/python2.7:$C_INCLUDE_PATH pip install numpy

I recently had the same problem. I run Debian Jessie and tried to install numpy from a Python 2.7.9 virtualenv. I got the same error -- numpy complaining that Python.h is missing while python2.7-dev and gcc are already installed.
File "numpy/core/setup.py", line 42, in check_types
],
File "numpy/core/setup.py", line 293, in check_types
SystemError: Cannot compile 'Python.h'. Perhaps you need to install python-dev|python-devel.
I'm running pip 1.5.6 and it doesn't appear to have command line option '-E'
$ pip -V
pip 1.5.6 from /home/alex/.virtualenvs/myenv/local/lib/python2.7/site- packages (python 2.7)
Upgrading pip to the latest verson 7.0.3 solves the problem
$ pip install --upgrade pip
Downloading/unpacking pip from https://pypi.python.org/packages/py2.py3/p/pip/pip-7.0.3-py2.py3-none-any.whl#md5=6950e1d775fea7ea50af690f72589dbd
Downloading pip-7.0.3-py2.py3-none-any.whl (1.1MB): 1.1MB downloaded
Installing collected packages: pip
Found existing installation: pip 1.5.6
Uninstalling pip:
Successfully uninstalled pip
Successfully installed pip
Cleaning up...
Now it is possible to install numpy
$ pip install numpy
Collecting numpy
Downloading numpy-1.9.2.tar.gz (4.0MB)
100% |████████████████████████████████| 4.0MB 61kB/s
Installing collected packages: numpy
Running setup.py install for numpy
Successfully installed numpy-1.9.2

This is probably because you do not have the python-dev package installed. You can install it like this:
sudo apt-get install python-dev
You can also install it via the Software Center:

#samkhan13 solution didn't work for me as pip said it doesn't have the -E option.
I was still getting the same error, but what worked for me was to install matplotlib, which installed numpy.

Python 3: ImportError "No Module named Setuptools"

I'm having troubles with installing packages in Python 3.
I have always installed packages with setup.py install. But now, when I try to install the ansicolors package I get:
importerror "No Module named Setuptools"
I have no idea what to do because I didn't have setuptools installed in the past. Still, I was able to install many packages with setup.py install without setuptools. Why should I get setuptools now?
I can't even install setuptools because I have Python 3.3 and setuptools doesn't support Python 3.
Why doesn't my install command work anymore?

Your setup.py file needs setuptools. Some Python packages used to use distutils for distribution, but most now use setuptools, a more complete package. Here is a question about the differences between them.
To install setuptools on Debian:
sudo apt-get install python3-setuptools
For an older version of Python (Python 2.x):
sudo apt-get install python-setuptools

EDIT: Official setuptools dox page:
If you have Python 2 >=2.7.9 or Python 3 >=3.4 installed from
python.org, you will already have pip and setuptools, but will need to
upgrade to the latest version:
On Linux or OS X:
pip install -U pip setuptools
On Windows:
python -m pip install -U pip setuptools
Therefore the rest of this post related to Distribute is obsolete (e.g. some links don't work).
EDIT 2022-02-04
From Python 3.10 Distutils is deprecated and will be removed in Python 3.12 - use setuptools:
The entire distutils package is deprecated, to be removed in Python 3.12. Its functionality
for specifying package builds has already been completely replaced by
third-party packages setuptools and packaging ...
Distribute (deprecated)
Distribute - is a setuptools fork which "offers Python 3 support". Installation instructions for distribute(setuptools) + pip:
curl -O http://python-distribute.org/distribute_setup.py
python distribute_setup.py
easy_install pip
Similar issue here.
UPDATE: Distribute seems to be obsolete, i.e. merged into Setuptools: Distribute is a deprecated fork of the Setuptools project. Since the Setuptools 0.7 release, Setuptools and Distribute have merged and Distribute is no longer being maintained. All ongoing effort should reference the Setuptools project and the Setuptools documentation.
You may try with instructions found on setuptools pypi page (I haven't tested this, sorry :( ):
wget https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools/raw/bootstrap/ez_setup.py -O - | python
easy_install pip

Make sure you are running the latest version of pip
I tried to install Ansible and it failed with
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'setuptools_rust'
python3-setuptools was already in place, so upgrading pip solved it.
pip3 install -U pip

I was doing this inside a virtualenv on Oracle Linux 6.4 using Python 2.6, so the apt-based solutions weren't an option for me, nor were the Python 2.7 ideas. My fix was to upgrade my version of setuptools that had been installed by virtualenv:
pip install --upgrade setuptools
After that, I was able to install packages into the virtualenv.

The solution which worked for me was to upgrade my setuptools:
python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip setuptools wheel

For others with the same issue due to a different reason: This can also happen when there's a pyproject.toml in the same directory as the setup.py, even when setuptools is available.
Removing pyproject.toml fixed the issue for me.

pip uninstall setuptools
and then:
pip install setuptools
This works for me and fixes my issue.

When there's a pyproject.toml in the same directory as the setup.py, it can be the cause of the issue. I renamed that file, but it didn't solve the issue, so I restablished the original file name, and did the following change.
Under the [build-system] section, I added "setuptools" to the requires= list, and it worked.

First step #1
You have to install setuptools
On Linux:
pip install -U pip setuptools
On Mac OS:
pip install -U pip setuptools
On Windows:
python -m pip install -U pip setuptools
Second step #2
Make sure you have made it accessible (make it available in environmental variables)
On Linux
export PATH="INSTALLATIONDIRECTORY:$PATH"
On Mac OS
Sorry, I don't know.
On Windows
Open the Start Search, type in “env”, and choose “Edit the system environment variables”
Click the “Environment Variable” button.
Set the environment variables as needed. The New button adds an additional variable.
Dismiss all of the dialogs by choosing “OK”. Your changes are saved!

The distribute package provides a Python 3-compatible version of setuptools: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/distribute
Also, use pip to install the modules. It automatically finds dependencies and installs them for you.
It works just fine for me with your package:
[~] pip --version
pip 1.2.1 from /usr/lib/python3.3/site-packages (python 3.3)
[~] sudo pip install ansicolors
Downloading/unpacking ansicolors
Downloading ansicolors-1.0.2.tar.gz
Running setup.py egg_info for package ansicolors
Installing collected packages: ansicolors
Running setup.py install for ansicolors
Successfully installed ansicolors
Cleaning up...
[~]

this is how my problem was solved => pip3 install setuptools-rust
If you want to check your list => pip3 list
i faced this problem while trying to install elastalert2
System informations
CentOS Linux release 7.9.2009 (Core)
Python 3.6.8
pip 21.3.1 from /usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pip (python 3.6)

I ran into this problem when my pip requirements.txt file contained an editable library that was built using poetry and contained a pyproject.toml file. Following the documentation for setuptools, my solution was to add setuptools to the build-system requirements in the pyproject.toml file as follows:
[build-system]
requires = ["poetry-core>=1.0.0", "setuptools"]
build-backend = "poetry.core.masonry.api"

If pip isn't installed, like for example if it's coming from the Deadsnakes PPA, or a Docker environment, the best way to fix this error is by bootstrapping it by running
python -m ensurepip

Windows 7:
I have given a complete solution here for Python Selenium WebDriver:
Setup easy install (Windows - simplified)
download ez.setup.py (https://bootstrap.pypa.io/ez_setup.py) from 'https://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools'
move ez.setup.py to C:\Python27\
open cmd prompt
cd C:\Python27\
C:\Python27\python.exe ez.setup.py install

I ran sudo python setup.py build_ext -i and it failed with No module named setuptools.
I solved it with this command:
<i>sudo apt-get install python-setuptools</i>

A few years ago I inherited a Python (2.7.1) project running under Django-1.2.3 and now was asked to enhance it with QR possibilities. I got the same problem and did not find pip or apt-get either. So I solved it in a totally different, but easy way.
I /bin/vi-ed the setup.py and changed the line
"from setuptools import setup"
into:
"from distutils.core import setup"

The PyPA recommended tool for installing and managing Python packages is pip. pip is included with Python 3.4 (PEP 453), but for older versions here's how to install it (on Windows):
Download https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py
>c:\Python33\python.exe get-pip.py
Downloading/unpacking pip
Downloading/unpacking setuptools
Installing collected packages: pip, setuptools
Successfully installed pip setuptools
Cleaning up...
>c:\Python33\Scripts\pip.exe install pymysql
Downloading/unpacking pymysql
Installing collected packages: pymysql
Successfully installed pymysql
Cleaning up...

On macOS, if you have homebrew installed, simply run:
brew install rust

If you still find this issue, try this:
python3 -m pip install scrapy --upgrade --force --user

While trying to install socketIO I had the same issue. At my system (Windows 11) setupTools were there twice. At C:\Program Files\Python310\Lib\site-packages\ and at C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python310\site-packages\
Had to uninstall one of them.

Working on Debian, sometime it can be because of older pip version. Therefore, update pip>
python -m pip install -U pip

I had such a problem to install pyunicorn. I wanted to install it on Google Colab. I tried installing pyunicorn directly from Github and it worked for me. For example in my case it was like this:
pip install git+https://github.com/pik-copan/pyunicorn.git#egg=pyunicorn