ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'wheel' during pythonnet installation on Python3.8

Question

I am installing pythonnet using pip install pythonnet in python 3.8. I am running into this ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'wheel' error. I did some research and I could not find a fix for this. Is there a way to fix this issue? Below is the error that I am getting.

Thanks in advance!

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C:\Users\user165>cd C://Python38

C:\Python38>pip install pythonnet
Collecting pythonnet
  Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/4a/0a/5964a5a1fdf207fab8e718edd1f8d3578e0681577fe9abe0d9006f9718c2/pythonnet-2.4.0.tar.gz
    ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
     command: 'c:\python38\python.exe' -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'C:\\Users\\user165\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-install-b8so9ms2\\pythonnet\\setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'C:\\Users\\user165\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-install-b8so9ms2\\pythonnet\\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 pip-egg-info
         cwd: C:\Users\user165\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-b8so9ms2\pythonnet\
    Complete output (5 lines):
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
      File "C:\Users\user165\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-b8so9ms2\pythonnet\setup.py", line 18, in <module>
        from wheel import bdist_wheel
    ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'wheel'
    ----------------------------------------
ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: python setup.py egg_info Check the logs for full command output.
WARNING: You are using pip version 19.2.3, however version 19.3.1 is available.
You should consider upgrading via the 'python -m pip install --upgrade pip' command.

C:\Python38>

Answer 1

Either work in a virtual environment (venv), which will make sure that wheel is installed, or install it explicitly yourself, together with setuptools:

python -m pip install wheel setuptools