Help: Cannot import name 'sandbox' from 'setuptools'

[ayman-dev]

Hello,

For the build of the dupeguru tool, i get an error when running the build of the application (also posted on the 'dupeguru' project issues) :

C:\dupeguru\dupeguru>python build.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\dupeguru\dupeguru\build.py", line 13, in <module>
    from setuptools import sandbox
ImportError: cannot import name 'sandbox' from 'setuptools' (C:\dupeguru\dupeguru\env\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\__init__.py)

Using setuptools 80.9.0, i don't see any 'sandbox' file.
Do you know what may be the issue ?

Thanks.

[ayman-dev]

Up:
I understand the sandbox module got removed.

https://setuptools.pypa.io/en/stable/history.html#v80-0-0

v80.0.0

27 Apr 2025
Bugfixes

    Update test to honor new behavior in importlib_metadata 8.7. ([#4961](https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/issues/4961))

Deprecations and Removals

Removed support for the easy_install command including the sandbox module. ([#2908](https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/issues/2908))