When installing a package I get the error:
ImportError: cannot import name 'setuptools' from setuptools
I am on the latest setuptools version 69.5.1 at the time of writing.
I needed to downgrade setuptools. The package I was trying to install does have from setuptools import setuptools in their setup.py , so the error makes sense.
After some experimentation it looks like this change was introduced in the move from version 68.x.x to 69.x.x. So versions of setuptools <69 seem to work.
pip install setuptools==69.0.0
python -c "from setuptools import setuptools; print(setuptools.__version__)" # ImportError: cannot import name 'setuptools' from setuptools
python -c "import setuptools; print(setuptools.__version__)" # 69.0.0
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pip install setuptools==68.0.0
python -c "from setuptools import setuptools; print(setuptools.__version__)" # 68.0.0