ImportError: cannot import name 'find_namespace_packages'

[mehnaz1985]

Please read the following resources before posting issues: I am facing problem at the beginning of the installation

(nnUnet_ve) mehnaz@carlo-DGX-Station:~/environments/nnUNet/nnUNet$ pip install -e . Obtaining file:///home/mehnaz/environments/nnUNet/nnUNet Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info: Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in File "/home/mehnaz/environments/nnUNet/nnUNet/setup.py", line 1, in from setuptools import setup, find_namespace_packages ImportError: cannot import name 'find_namespace_packages'

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Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /home/mehnaz/environments/nnUNet/nnUNet/

Common questions: https://github.com/MIC-DKFZ/nnUNet/blob/master/documentation/common_questions.md

Common Problems and their solutions: https://github.com/MIC-DKFZ/nnUNet/blob/master/documentation/common_problems_and_solutions.md

Expected epoch times and tips on how to identify bottlenecks: https://github.com/MIC-DKFZ/nnUNet/blob/master/documentation/expected_epoch_times.md

[FabianIsensee]

pip install --upgrade setuptools #474

[saikat-roy]

Upgrading/Reinstalling setuptools seems to be the way to go on this. Based on some downvotes above, if the problem was not solved maybe providing further details would help us to provide a solution, but regardless this is not a nnUNet specific issue.

I will be closing the issue for the moment.