error in fudge setup command: use_2to3 is invalid

[ClaudiuCreanga]

Can't use fudge with the latest setuptools >= 58 because use_2to3 is invalid.

[quantoid]

@kumar303 any chance of a fix for this?

Can't install fudge on python 3.9.10 which is a shame because it's my favourite mocking package and changing to another would be a lot of work.

[quantoid]

Note that pinning python to 3.9.6 or 3.8 fixes the problem for now.

[ford--prefect]

The use_2to3 statement is deprecated and not supported in setuptools>57.5. Either downgrade setuptools or find a way in the setup.py to get rid of the statement.
EDIT: just removing the statement from the setup.py works for me. Also note, that PEP517/518 deprecate setuptools and introduce a new way of building python projects.

[zeinramadan]

Either downgrade setuptools or find a way in the setup.py to get rid of the statement

Used this command to downgrade setuptools version 57.4.0 and it finally worked. Thanks.
pip install 'setuptools<57.5'