The cloudformation-cli does not work if the setuptools package is not installed.
Attempts to issue any command, for example cfn init, fail with an ambiguous error message:
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pkg_resources'
Installing setuptools fixes the issue.
It would be great if this dependency was explicitly stated in the docs, or if setuptools would get installed automatically by pip when cloudformation-cli is installed.
The cloudformation-cli does not work if the
setuptoolspackage is not installed.Attempts to issue any command, for example
cfn init, fail with an ambiguous error message:Installing
setuptoolsfixes the issue.It would be great if this dependency was explicitly stated in the docs, or if
setuptoolswould get installed automatically by pip when cloudformation-cli is installed.