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@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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