Problem with distribute package

[francescarpi]

On Python Version: 3.5.9 I can't install pyzmail==1.0.3 because I receive the follow error:

Collecting pyzmail; python_version < "3.6"
 Downloading pyzmail-1.0.3.tar.gz (57 kB)
Collecting pytz
 Downloading pytz-2020.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl (510 kB)
Collecting lockfile
 Downloading lockfile-0.12.2-py2.py3-none-any.whl (13 kB)
Collecting distribute
 Downloading distribute-0.7.3.zip (145 kB)
   ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
    command: /usr/local/bin/python -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'/tmp/pip-install-w5vr59s7/distribute/setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'/tmp/pip-install-w5vr59s7/distribute/setup.py'"'"';f=getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' egg_info --egg-base /tmp/pip-pip-egg-info-6v571h0r
        cwd: /tmp/pip-install-w5vr59s7/distribute/
   Complete output (11 lines):
   Traceback (most recent call last):
     File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
     File "/tmp/pip-install-w5vr59s7/distribute/setuptools/__init__.py", line 2, in <module>
       from setuptools.extension import Extension, Library
     File "/tmp/pip-install-w5vr59s7/distribute/setuptools/extension.py", line 2, in <module>
       import distutils.core
     File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/_distutils_hack/__init__.py", line 83, in create_module
       return importlib.import_module('._distutils', 'setuptools')
     File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/importlib/__init__.py", line 126, in import_module
       return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
   ImportError: No module named 'setuptools._distutils'
   ----------------------------------------
ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: python setup.py egg_info Check the logs for full command output.

Could anyone help me, please?

Thank you

[georgemagnuson]

try installing a forked version (see https://pypi.org/project/pyzmail36/): pip install pyzmail36