Python setuptools 36.0; still broken, 9 hours later

They broke the entire python packaging ecosystem with a one line change, then went to bed, and 10 hours later, no one has fixed it.

I get that python is a volunteer community, but that's just poor form.

Imagine if npm just broke for 10 hours. They'd have people screaming at them.

...but you know, with pip and setuptools, they take the 'hey, if we break it every few months, no one will really care when we break it again' approach.

This happened with the pip upgrade a while ago as well.

It shows up the entire python ecosystem as unreliable.