ImportError: module 'setuptools.dist' has no 'check_specifier' attribute

For python 3 and later 3.x, use pip3

sudo pip3 install setuptools --upgrade

No need to use sudo for a virtual environment or in admin console of windows,so use simply

pip3 install setuptools --upgrade

It was due to older setuptools version. I updated setuptools as follows:

sudo pip install setuptools --upgrade

It installed setuptools-31.0.0 and that worked.