ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils' #6509
Description
When I run uv add numpy (after adding some other dependencies successfully), I get an "No module named 'distutils'" error. I've just installed uv and ran uv install python 3.12 and tried to create a new project with it.
I'm using the following platform:
Platform Info:
OS: macOS (arm64-apple-darwin22.4.0)
CPU: 12 × Apple M3 Pro
WORD_SIZE: 64
Here's my uv --version:
$ uv --version
uv 0.3.2 (c5440001c 2024-08-23)
Here's the error I'm getting:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 8, in <module>
File "/Users/USERNAME/.cache/uv/builds-v0/.tmpvWutaJ/lib/python3.12/site-packages/setuptools/__init__.py", line 10, in <module>
import distutils.core
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils'
Here's the detailed log output with uv add numpy --verbose:
https://gist.github.com/kdheepak/88fd62563e7457c0d9d17180ad907c42
Weirdly, numpy gets added to pyproject.toml:
[project]
name = "test-uv-prototype"
version = "0.1.0"
description = "Add your description here"
readme = "README.md"
requires-python = ">=3.12"
dependencies = [
"jupyter>=1.0.0",
"geopandas>=1.0.1",
"hplot",
"hvplot>=0.10.0",
"numpy>=1.25.0",
]
[build-system]
requires = ["hatchling"]
build-backend = "hatchling.build"