error: metadata-generation-failed at thrift when installing impyla with python 3.9.17

[kevinkim5]

I am trying to install impyla with python 3.9.17, but it returns encounters this error when pip tries to install thrift==0.16.0 (from impyla)

assert '_distutils' in core.file, core.file
AssertionError:
error: metadata-generation-failed

Any fix for this or python needs to downgraded?

[csringhofer]

I tried installing impyla with python 3.9.18 + Ubunut 20.04 and it worked without issues:
sudo apt-get install python3.9
sudo apt-get install python3.9-venv
python3.9 -m venv venvs/impyla520
source venvs/impyla520/bin/activate
pip install impyla

Do you have an idea on what could be different in your environment?