`ImportError: cannot import name 'build_py_2to3' from 'distutils.command.build_py'`

[zultron]

I'm in a weird environment, but this seems to be incompatible with Py3.8:

Processing /tmp/pip3-archive/pymachinetalk-0.13.3.tar.gz
  Preparing metadata (setup.py) ... error
  error: subprocess-exited-with-error
  
  × python setup.py egg_info did not run successfully.
  │ exit code: 1
  ╰─> [6 lines of output]
      Traceback (most recent call last):
        File "<string>", line 2, in <module>
        File "<pip-setuptools-caller>", line 34, in <module>
        File "/tmp/pip-req-build-4l00c6mq/setup.py", line 24, in <module>
          from distutils.command.build_py import build_py_2to3 as build_py
      ImportError: cannot import name 'build_py_2to3' from 'distutils.command.build_py' (/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/setuptools/_distutils/command/build_py.py)
      [end of output]
  
  note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
error: metadata-generation-failed

× Encountered error while generating package metadata.
╰─> See above for output.

note: This is an issue with the package mentioned above, not pip.
hint: See above for details.

The issue is in this line.

Is this needed because there's still Py2 code in this repo?

[jordan-lgtm]

It seems like 'build_py_2to3' was removed form setuptools in the newer versions, I downgraded to setuptool version 58 to install the package.