typing-extensions not found on Windows

[carlosjourdan]

My operating system is (include version):

Windows 10

I installed Certbot with (snap, OS package manager, pip, certbot-auto, etc):

https://dl.eff.org/certbot-beta-installer-win_amd64.exe

I ran this command and it produced this output:

certbot produces the following error

←[31mAn unexpected error occurred:←[0m
←[31mpkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: The 'typing-extensions>=3.7.4' distribution was not found and is required by typing-inspect←[0m

[alexzorin]

Does uninstalling and reinstalling Certbot still result in this issue?

I'm unable to reproduce the issue.

You can also try https://github.com/certbot/certbot/releases/latest/download/certbot-beta-installer-win_amd64_signed.exe.

[carlosjourdan]

Neither reinstalling the original file, nor installing the one from the github link fixed the issue.

For reference, this is the content of the log file when I run the certbot.exe

2023-04-24 16:01:18,098:DEBUG:certbot._internal.log:Exiting abnormally:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "runpy.py", line 197, in run_module_as_main
File "runpy.py", line 87, in run_code
File "C:\Program Files\Certbot\bin\certbot.exe_main.py", line 29, in
sys.exit(main())
File "C:\Program Files\Certbot\pkgs\certbot\main.py", line 19, in main
return internal_main.main(cli_args)
File "C:\Program Files\Certbot\pkgs\certbot_internal\main.py", line 1835, in main
plugins = plugins_disco.PluginsRegistry.find_all()
File "C:\Program Files\Certbot\pkgs\certbot_internal\plugins\disco.py", line 192, in find_all
cls.load_entry_point(entry_point, plugins)
File "C:\Program Files\Certbot\pkgs\certbot_internal\plugins\disco.py", line 199, in load_entry_point
plugin_ep = PluginEntryPoint(entry_point)
File "C:\Program Files\Certbot\pkgs\certbot_internal\plugins\disco.py", line 40, in init
self.plugin_cls: Type[interfaces.Plugin] = entry_point.load()
File "C:\Program Files\Certbot\pkgs\pkg_resources_init.py", line 2467, in load
self.require(*args, **kwargs)
File "C:\Program Files\Certbot\pkgs\pkg_resources_init.py", line 2490, in require
items = working_set.resolve(reqs, env, installer, extras=self.extras)
File "C:\Program Files\Certbot\pkgs\pkg_resources_init.py", line 815, in resolve
dist = self.resolve_dist(
File "C:\Program Files\Certbot\pkgs\pkg_resources_init.py", line 856, in _resolve_dist
raise DistributionNotFound(req, requirers)
pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: The 'typing-extensions>=3.7.4' distribution was not found and is required by typing-inspect
2023-04-24 16:01:18,098:ERROR:certbot._internal.log:An unexpected error occurred:
2023-04-24 16:01:18,099:ERROR:certbot._internal.log:pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: The 'typing-extensions>=3.7.4' distribution was not found and is required by typing-inspect

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