setuptools version

setuptools>75.8.2

Python version

Python 3.12

OS

Windows

Additional environment information

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Description

After version >75.8.2 , following example code is having an issue:

Error:

AttributeError: module 'distutils._msvccompiler' has no attribute '_get_vc_env' 

Example code:

from setuptools._distutils import _msvccompiler result = _msvccompiler._get_vc_env('x64') print(result) 

Expected behavior

Example code:

from setuptools._distutils import _msvccompiler result = _msvccompiler._get_vc_env('x64') print(result) 

It is working without problem with 75.8.2 or earlier.

pip install setuptools<=75.8.2

output:

returns environment variables

On March 9, new version of setuptools is published and after this updat it started to give error:

Error:

AttributeError: module 'distutils._msvccompiler' has no attribute '_get_vc_env' 

How to Reproduce

from setuptools._distutils import _msvccompiler result = _msvccompiler._get_vc_env('x64') print(result) 

Run this with setuptools<=75.8.2 and setuptools>75.8.2

Output

 result = _msvccompiler._get_vc_env('x64')  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ AttributeError: module 'distutils._msvccompiler' has no attribute '_get_vc_env'