[Distutils] bug with get-pip.py?

[Brett Cannon]

How old is the version of setuptools being used? I vaguely remember this
error from a while back and it being fixed in a later release of setuptools.

On Thu, 27 Apr 2017 at 13:22 Randy Syring <randy at thesyrings.us> wrote:

> I've installed Python 3.6 on Ubuntu 14.04 through the dead snakes PPA and
> I'm trying to get pip installed.
>
> $ python3.6 ~/tmp/get-pip.py
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/home/rsyring/tmp/get-pip.py", line 20061, in <module>
>     main()
>   File "/home/rsyring/tmp/get-pip.py", line 194, in main
>     bootstrap(tmpdir=tmpdir)
>   File "/home/rsyring/tmp/get-pip.py", line 119, in bootstrap
>     import setuptools  # noqa
>   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/setuptools/__init__.py", line 12,
> in <module>
>     from setuptools.extension import Extension
>   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/setuptools/extension.py", line 7,
> in <module>
>     from setuptools.dist import _get_unpatched
>   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/setuptools/dist.py", line 16, in
> <module>
>     import pkg_resources
>   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 1479, in
> <module>
>     register_loader_type(importlib_bootstrap.SourceFileLoader,
> DefaultProvider)
> AttributeError: module 'importlib._bootstrap' has no attribute
> 'SourceFileLoader'
>
> Any ideas?
>
> *Randy Syring*
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>
>
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> soul?" (Mark 8:36 ESV)*
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