ModuleNotFoundError: No module named '_ctypes'

[alhelal]

BPO	39731
Nosy	@terryjreedy

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assignee = None
closed_at = <Date 2022-01-23.18:59:47.976>
created_at = <Date 2020-02-23.13:55:42.423>
labels = ['ctypes', 'build', '3.8']
title = "ModuleNotFoundError: No module named '_ctypes'"
updated_at = <Date 2022-01-23.18:59:47.976>
user = 'https://bugs.python.org/alhelal'

bugs.python.org fields:

activity = <Date 2022-01-23.18:59:47.976>
actor = 'iritkatriel'
assignee = 'none'
closed = True
closed_date = <Date 2022-01-23.18:59:47.976>
closer = 'iritkatriel'
components = ['ctypes']
creation = <Date 2020-02-23.13:55:42.423>
creator = 'alhelal'
dependencies = []
files = []
hgrepos = []
issue_num = 39731
keywords = []
message_count = 2.0
messages = ['362511', '362946']
nosy_count = 2.0
nosy_names = ['terry.reedy', 'alhelal']
pr_nums = []
priority = 'normal'
resolution = 'third party'
stage = 'resolved'
status = 'closed'
superseder = None
type = 'compile error'
url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue39731'
versions = ['Python 3.8']

[alhelal]

ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
     command: /usr/local/bin/python3.8 -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'/tmp/pip-install-68ypuk30/django-tables2/setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'/tmp/pip-install-68ypuk30/django-tables2/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 /tmp/pip-install-68ypuk30/django-tables2/pip-egg-info
         cwd: /tmp/pip-install-68ypuk30/django-tables2/
    Complete output (11 lines):
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
      File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/setuptools/__init__.py", line 20, in <module>
        from setuptools.dist import Distribution, Feature
      File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/setuptools/dist.py", line 35, in <module>
        from setuptools import windows_support
      File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/setuptools/windows_support.py", line 2, in <module>
        import ctypes
      File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/ctypes/__init__.py", line 7, in <module>
        from _ctypes import Union, Structure, Array
    ModuleNotFoundError: No module named '_ctypes'
    

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ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: python setup.py egg_info Check the logs for full command output.

[terryjreedy]

This does not look like a bug in cpython; if is it not, it should be closed. Please ask for help on python-list or another forum that covers installation issues. Or maybe look for a pip user list.