ModuleNotFoundError: No module named '_distutils_hack'

Question

Someone could help me, please? I was running some python scripts and I found the following warning:

  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/Users/yohelcruz/opt/anaconda3/lib/python3.9/site.py", line 169, in addpackage
      exec(line)
    File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
  ModuleNotFoundError: No module named '_distutils_hack'

Remainder of file ignored```

Answer 1

I ended up creating an issue on conda: https://github.com/conda/conda/issues/11931

After some additional digging, I found that running

pip install -U pip setuptools

solved the issue