Codespace build fails with "AttributeError: cython_sources"

[TaoK]

I just created a new project from this template, tried to create a codespace, and it failed (consistently/repeatedly) with the following error (verbose, becaause I'm not sure which bits are important):

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2023-12-04 07:51:42.603Z: Running blocking commands...
2023-12-04 07:51:42.633Z: $ devcontainer up --id-label Type=codespaces --workspace-folder /var/lib/docker/codespacemount/workspace/poormans-python-testing --mount type=bind,source=/.codespaces/agent/mount/cache,target=/vscode --user-data-folder /var/lib/docker/codespacemount/.persistedshare --container-data-folder .vscode-remote/data/Machine --container-system-data-folder /var/vscode-remote --log-level trace --log-format json --update-remote-user-uid-default never --mount-workspace-git-root false --omit-config-remote-env-from-metadata --skip-non-blocking-commands --expect-existing-container --config "/var/lib/docker/codespacemount/workspace/poormans-python-testing/.devcontainer/devcontainer.json" --override-config /root/.codespaces/shared/merged_devcontainer.json --default-user-env-probe loginInteractiveShell --container-session-data-folder /workspaces/.codespaces/.persistedshare/devcontainers-cli/cache --secrets-file /root/.codespaces/shared/user-secrets-envs.json
2023-12-04 07:51:42.865Z: @devcontainers/cli 0.52.1. Node.js v18.17.1. linux 6.2.0-1016-azure x64.
2023-12-04 07:51:43.226Z: Running the onCreateCommand from devcontainer.json...

2023-12-04 07:51:43.234Z: pre-commit install-hooks
2023-12-04 07:51:43.840Z: [INFO]�[m Initializing environment for ********/pre-commit/pre-commit-hooks.
2023-12-04 07:51:44.942Z: [INFO]�[m Initializing environment for ********/PyCQA/isort.
2023-12-04 07:51:45.678Z: [INFO]�[m Initializing environment for ********/asottile/pyupgrade.
2023-12-04 07:51:46.354Z: [INFO]�[m Initializing environment for ********/hadialqattan/pycln.
2023-12-04 07:51:47.068Z: [INFO]�[m Initializing environment for ********/codespell-project/codespell.
2023-12-04 07:51:47.725Z: [INFO]�[m Initializing environment for ********/pre-commit/pygrep-hooks.
2023-12-04 07:51:48.302Z: [INFO]�[m Initializing environment for ********/mgedmin/check-manifest.
2023-12-04 07:51:48.938Z: [INFO]�[m Installing environment for ********/pre-commit/pre-commit-hooks.
[INFO]�[m Once installed this environment will be reused.
[INFO]�[m This may take a few minutes...
2023-12-04 07:51:54.899Z: [INFO]�[m Installing environment for ********/PyCQA/isort.
2023-12-04 07:51:54.907Z: [INFO]�[m Once installed this environment will be reused.
[INFO]�[m This may take a few minutes...
2023-12-04 07:51:57.913Z: [INFO]�[m Installing environment for ********/asottile/pyupgrade.
[INFO]�[m Once installed this environment will be reused.
[INFO]�[m This may take a few minutes...
2023-12-04 07:52:01.732Z: [INFO]�[m Installing environment for ********/hadialqattan/pycln.
[INFO]�[m Once installed this environment will be reused.
[INFO]�[m This may take a few minutes...
2023-12-04 07:52:20.173Z: An unexpected error has occurred: CalledProcessError: command: ('/home/vscode/.cache/pre-commit/repo52rhy_om/py_env-python3/bin/python', '-mpip', 'install', '.')
return code: 1
stdout:
    Processing /home/vscode/.cache/pre-commit/repo52rhy_om
      Installing build dependencies: started
      Installing build dependencies: finished with status 'done'
      Getting requirements to build wheel: started
      Getting requirements to build wheel: finished with status 'done'
      Preparing metadata (pyproject.toml): started
      Preparing metadata (pyproject.toml): finished with status 'done'
    Collecting libcst<0.4.0,>=0.3.10 (from pycln==1.2.5)
      Downloading libcst-0.3.23-py3-none-any.whl (517 kB)
         ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 517.4/517.4 kB 9.2 MB/s eta 0:00:00
    Collecting pathspec<0.10.0,>=0.9.0 (from pycln==1.2.5)
      Downloading pathspec-0.9.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl (31 kB)
    Collecting pyyaml<6.0.0,>=5.3.1 (from pycln==1.2.5)
      Downloading PyYAML-5.4.1.tar.gz (175 kB)
         ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 175.1/175.1 kB 5.1 MB/s eta 0:00:00
      Installing build dependencies: started
      Installing build dependencies: finished with status 'done'
      Getting requirements to build wheel: started
      Getting requirements to build wheel: finished with status 'error'
stderr:
      error: subprocess-exited-with-error
      
      × Getting requirements to build wheel did not run successfully.
      │ exit code: 1
      ╰─> [54 lines of output]
          running egg_info
          writing lib3/PyYAML.egg-info/PKG-INFO
          writing dependency_links to lib3/PyYAML.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
          writing top-level names to lib3/PyYAML.egg-info/top_level.txt
          Traceback (most recent call last):
            File "/home/vscode/.cache/pre-commit/repo52rhy_om2023-12-04 07:52:20.179Z: /py_env-python3/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pyproject_hooks/_in_process/_in_process.py", line 353, in <module>
              main()
            File "/home/vscode/.cache/pre-commit/repo52rhy_om/py_env-python3/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pyproject_hooks/_in_process/_in_process.py", line 335, in main
              json_out['return_val'] = hook(**hook_input['kwargs'])
                                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
            File "/home/vscode/.cache/pre-commit/repo52rhy_om/py_env-python3/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pyproject_hooks/_in_process/_in_process.py", line 118, in get_requires_for_build_wheel
              return hook(config_settings)
                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
            File "/tmp/pip-build-env-dtb0y3el/overlay/lib/python3.12/site-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 325, in get_requires_for_build_wheel
              return self._get_build_requires(config_settings, requirements=['wheel'])
                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
            File "/tmp/pip-build-env-dtb0y3el/overlay/lib/python3.12/site-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 295, in _get_build_requires
              self.run_setup()
            File "/tmp/pip-build-env-dtb0y3el/overlay/lib/python3.12/site-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 311, in run_setup
              exec(code, locals())
            File "<string>", line 271, in <module>
            File "/tmp/pip-build-env-dtb0y3el/overlay/lib/python3.12/site-packages/setuptools/__init__.py", line 103, in setup
              return distutils.core.setup(**attrs)
                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
            File "/tmp/pip-build-env-dtb0y3el/overlay/lib/python3.12/site-packages/setuptools/_distutils/core.py", line 185, in setup
              return run_commands(dist)
                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
            File "/tmp/pip-build-env-dtb0y3el/overlay/lib/python3.12/site-packages/setuptools/_distutils/core.py", line 201, in run_commands
              dist.run_commands()
            File "/tmp/pip-build-env-dtb0y3el/overlay/lib/python3.12/site-packages/setuptools/_distutils/dist.py", line 969, in run_commands
              self.run_command(cmd)
            File "/tmp/pip-build-env-dtb0y3el/overlay/lib/python3.12/site-packages/setuptools/dist.py", line 963, in run_command
              super().run_command(command)
            File "/tmp/pip-build-env-dtb0y3el/overlay/lib/python3.12/site-packages/setuptools/_distutils/dist.py", line 988, in run_command
              cmd_obj.run()
            File "/tmp/pip-build-env-dtb0y3el/overlay/lib/python3.12/site-packages/setuptools/command/egg_info.py", line 321, in run
              self.find_sources()
            File "/tmp/pip-build-env-dtb0y3el/overlay/lib/python3.12/site-packages/setuptools/command/egg_info.py", line 329, in find_sources
              mm.run()
            File "/tmp/pip-build-env-dtb0y3el/overlay/lib/python3.12/site-packages/setuptools/command/egg_info.py", line 551, in run
              self.add_defaults()
            File "/tmp/pip-build-env-dtb0y3el/overlay/lib/python3.12/site-packages/setuptools/command/egg_info.py", line 589, in add_defaults
              sdist.add_defaults(self)
            File "/tmp/pip-build-env-dtb0y3el/overlay/lib/python3.12/site-packages/setuptools/command/sdist.py", line 112, in add_defaults
              super().add_defaults()
            File "/tmp/pip-build-env-dtb0y3el/overlay/lib/python3.12/site-packages/setuptools/_distutils/command/sdist.py", line 251, in add_defaults
              self._add_defaults_ext()
            File "/tmp/pip-build-env-dtb0y3el/overlay/lib/python3.12/site-packages/setuptools/_distutils/command/sdist.py", line 336, in _add_defaults_ext
              self.filelist.extend(build_ext.get_source_files())
                                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
            File "<string>", line 201, in get_source_files
            File "/tmp/pip-build-env-dtb0y3el/overlay/2023-12-04 07:52:20.187Z: lib/python3.12/site-packages/setuptools/_distutils/cmd.py", line 107, in __getattr__
              raise AttributeError(attr)
          AttributeError: cython_sources
          [end of output]
      
      note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
    error: subprocess-exited-with-error
    
    × Getting requirements to build wheel did not run successfully.
    │ exit code: 1
    ╰─> See above for output.
    
    note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
2023-12-04 07:52:20.189Z: Check the log at /home/vscode/.cache/pre-commit/pre-commit.log
2023-12-04 07:52:20.237Z: onCreateCommand failed with exit code 3. Skipping any further user-provided commands.

2023-12-04 07:52:20.248Z: Error: Command failed: /bin/sh -c pre-commit install-hooks
2023-12-04 07:52:20.254Z:     at WY (/usr/lib/node_modules/@devcontainers/cli/dist/spec-node/devContainersSpecCLI.js:235:130)
2023-12-04 07:52:20.261Z:     at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:95:5)
2023-12-04 07:52:20.298Z: {"outcome":"error","message":"Command failed: /bin/sh -c pre-commit install-hooks","description":"The onCreateCommand in the devcontainer.json failed.","containerId":"63f3ec8410a6bc47d1c4723747eb4471684227113686782fe8af91f0a4768f6e"}
2023-12-04 07:52:20.304Z:     at async bl (/usr/lib/node_modules/@devcontainers/cli/dist/spec-node/devContainersSpecCLI.js:227:4393)
2023-12-04 07:52:20.314Z:     at async Ll (/usr/lib/node_modules/@devcontainers/cli/dist/spec-node/devContainersSpecCLI.js:227:3738)
2023-12-04 07:52:20.321Z:     at async vl (/usr/lib/node_modules/@devcontainers/cli/dist/spec-node/devContainersSpecCLI.js:227:2745)
2023-12-04 07:52:20.326Z:     at async Js (/usr/lib/node_modules/@devcontainers/cli/dist/spec-node/devContainersSpecCLI.js:227:2386)
2023-12-04 07:52:20.330Z:     at async QAA (/usr/lib/node_modules/@devcontainers/cli/dist/spec-node/devContainersSpecCLI.js:462:1496)
2023-12-04 07:52:20.334Z:     at async kK (/usr/lib/node_modules/@devcontainers/cli/dist/spec-node/devContainersSpecCLI.js:462:964)
2023-12-04 07:52:20.337Z:     at async NAA (/usr/lib/node_modules/@devcontainers/cli/dist/spec-node/devContainersSpecCLI.js:479:3660)
2023-12-04 07:52:20.342Z:     at async vC (/usr/lib/node_modules/@devcontainers/cli/dist/spec-node/devContainersSpecCLI.js:479:4775)
2023-12-04 07:52:20.347Z: devcontainer process exited with exit code 1

====================================== ERROR ====================================
2023-12-04 07:52:20.352Z: Failed to create container.
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2023-12-04 07:52:20.359Z: Error: Command failed: /bin/sh -c pre-commit install-hooks
2023-12-04 07:52:20.364Z: Error code: 1302 (UnifiedContainersErrorFatalCreatingContainer)