If you see Command python setup.py egg_info failed with error code 1 when Installing Python, then the setup tool on your computer might not be installed or updated.

The error message “ Command ‘python setup.py egg_info’ failed with error code 1 ” during package installation means there was a problem building the package.

In the python workflow, setup.py files are used to declare installation dependencies of a distributable package. So, if I have a package like requests, and it depends on people having cffi installed, ...

I've been trying to get colcon to honor the "install_requires" field of "setup.py", only to stumble upon this post where I learned it's not a supported field (at least it doesn't behave the same wa ...

The py launcher to make it easier to start Python. The default Python install on Windows 11 includes a variety of helpful tools, including PiP, IDLE and tkinter.