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So I'm following along "Automate the boring stuff" by Al Sweigart. And he uses pyzmail in the book. Naturally I'm going to want to use it too in order to follow along with the book. I've tried every single thing on the internet - and it's just frustrating. Can somebody tell me how to fix this please? I just can't get this damn pyzmail module installed. I've even tried virtual environments. I get this error no matter what, it's like it's destined to be and god wants me to suffer in the cmd prompt and google for 3 hours .

.\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.10_qbz5n2kfra8p0>pip install pyzmail
Collecting pyzmail
  Using cached pyzmail-1.0.3.tar.gz (57 kB)
  Preparing metadata (setup.py) ... error
  error: subprocess-exited-with-error

  × python setup.py egg_info did not run successfully.
  │ exit code: 1
  ╰─> [2 lines of output]
      error in pyzmail setup command: use_2to3 is invalid.
      VERSION 1.0.3
      [end of output]

  note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
error: metadata-generation-failed

× Encountered error while generating package metadata.
╰─> See above for output.

note: This is an issue with the package mentioned above, not pip.
hint: See above for details.

This is the error. I find it really confusing.

error: metadata-generation-failed
Phanatasmare
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I am not sure that it will work but that's what I found.

setuptools>=58 breaks support for use_2to3 that is why you are facing this error

Consider downgrading the setuptools to version 57.

pip install -I setuptools==57.5.0

That is the latest 57 version.

Also, you may consider not using this library.

UPDATE

As I understood, this package is abandoned and the last release was in May 2014. Downgrading the setuptools will not work. This package fails in setting up an abandoned distribute library.

Link to the same problem and answer.

Albert Badretdinov
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