Devcontainer on GitHub Codespaces fails to install

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Describe the bug
Devcontainer on GitHub Codespaces fails to install

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Create a GitHub Codespace based on the latest commits. In my case: c7e5375
2. The ✖ Running updateContentCommand... fails

Expected behavior
Devcontainer creation should finish without error

Additional context
Might also be interesting to make a prebuild container: https://docs.github.com/en/codespaces/prebuilding-your-codespaces/about-github-codespaces-prebuilds

Relevant log:

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2025-01-03 10:41:11.712Z: Running commands...
2025-01-03 10:41:11.731Z: $ devcontainer up --id-label Type=codespaces --workspace-folder /var/lib/docker/codespacemount/workspace/generative-ai-for-beginners --expect-existing-container --skip-post-attach --mount type=bind,source=/.codespaces/agent/mount/cache,target=/vscode --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 --config "/var/lib/docker/codespacemount/workspace/generative-ai-for-beginners/.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
2025-01-03 10:41:11.996Z: @devcontainers/cli 0.68.0. Node.js v18.20.5. linux 6.5.0-1025-azure x64.
2025-01-03 10:41:12.315Z: Running the updateContentCommand from devcontainer.json...

2025-01-03 10:41:12.317Z: python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt
2025-01-03 10:41:13.942Z: Collecting ipywidgets==7.7.1 (from -r requirements.txt (line 1))
2025-01-03 10:41:13.955Z:   Downloading ipywidgets-7.7.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl.metadata (1.9 kB)
2025-01-03 10:41:14.121Z: Collecting matplotlib==3.7.0 (from -r requirements.txt (line 2))
2025-01-03 10:41:14.126Z:   Downloading matplotlib-3.7.0.tar.gz (36.3 MB)
2025-01-03 10:41:14.126Z: �[?25l2025-01-03 10:41:14.128Z:      ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 0.0/36.3 MB ? eta -:--:--2025-01-03 10:41:14.330Z: 
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�[?25h2025-01-03 10:41:18.301Z:   Installing build dependencies ... �[?25l-2025-01-03 10:41:18.450Z: � �\2025-01-03 10:41:18.585Z: � �|2025-01-03 10:41:19.046Z: � �/2025-01-03 10:41:19.417Z: � �-2025-01-03 10:41:19.808Z: � �\2025-01-03 10:41:20.195Z: � �|2025-01-03 10:41:27.305Z: � �/2025-01-03 10:41:27.440Z: � �done
2025-01-03 10:41:27.727Z: �[?25h  Getting requirements to build wheel ... �[?25l-2025-01-03 10:41:27.968Z: � �\2025-01-03 10:41:28.103Z: � �|2025-01-03 10:41:28.143Z: � �done
2025-01-03 10:41:28.420Z: �[?25h  Preparing metadata (pyproject.toml) ... �[?25l-2025-01-03 10:41:28.608Z: � �\2025-01-03 10:41:28.736Z: � �done
2025-01-03 10:41:29.961Z: �[?25hCollecting numpy==1.24.2 (from -r requirements.txt (line 3))
2025-01-03 10:41:29.968Z:   Downloading numpy-1.24.2.tar.gz (10.9 MB)2025-01-03 10:41:29.968Z: 
2025-01-03 10:41:29.969Z: �[?25l2025-01-03 10:41:29.973Z:      ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 0.0/10.9 MB ? eta -:--:--2025-01-03 10:41:30.186Z: 
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�[?25h2025-01-03 10:41:32.609Z:   Installing build dependencies ... �[?25l-2025-01-03 10:41:33.127Z: � �\2025-01-03 10:41:34.490Z: � �|2025-01-03 10:41:34.749Z: � �/2025-01-03 10:41:35.926Z: � �-2025-01-03 10:41:36.039Z: � �done
2025-01-03 10:41:36.097Z: �[?25h  Getting requirements to build wheel ... �[?25ldone
2025-01-03 10:41:36.203Z: ERROR: Exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/codespace/.python/current/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pip/_internal/cli/base_command.py", line 105, in _run_wrapper
    status = _inner_run()
             ^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/codespace/.python/current/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pip/_internal/cli/base_command.py", line 96, in _inner_run
    return self.run(options, args)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/codespace/.python/current/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pip/_internal/cli/req_command.py", line 67, in wrapper
    return func(self, options, args)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/codespace/.python/current/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pip/_internal/commands/install.py", line 379, in run
    requirement_set = resolver.resolve(
                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/codespace/.python/current/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pip/_internal/resolution/resolvelib/resolver.py", line 95, in resolve
    result = self._result = resolver.resolve(
                            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/codespace/.python/current/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pip/_vendor/resolvelib/resolvers.py", line 546, in resolve
    state = resolution.resolve(requirements, max_rounds=max_rounds)
            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/codespace/.python/current/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pip/_vendor/resolvelib/resolvers.py", line 397, in resolve
    self._add_to_criteria(self.state.criteria, r, parent=None)
  File "/home/codespace/.python/current/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pip/_vendor/resolvelib/resolvers.py", line 173, in _add_to_criteria
    if not criterion.candidates:
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/codespace/.python/current/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pip/_vendor/resolvelib/structs.py", line 156, in __bool__
    return bool(self._sequence)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/codespace/.python/current/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pip/_internal/resolution/resolvel2025-01-03 10:41:36.204Z: ib/found_candidates.py", line 174, in __bool__
    return any(self)
           ^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/codespace/.python/current/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pip/_internal/resolution/resolvelib/found_candidates.py", line 162, in <genexpr>
    return (c for c in iterator if id(c) not in self._incompatible_ids)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/codespace/.python/current/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pip/_internal/resolution/resolvelib/found_candidates.py", line 53, in _iter_built
    candidate = func()
                ^^^^^^
  File "/home/codespace/.python/current/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pip/_internal/resolution/resolvelib/factory.py", line 187, in _make_candidate_from_link
    base: Optional[BaseCandidate] = self._make_base_candidate_from_link(
                                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/codespace/.python/current/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pip/_internal/resolution/resolvelib/factory.py", line 233, in _make_base_candidate_from_link
    self._link_candidate_cache[link] = LinkCandidate(
                                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/codespace/.python/current/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pip/_internal/resolution/resolvelib/candidates.py", line 304, in __init__
    super().__init__(
  File "/home/codespace/.python/current/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pip/_internal/resolution/resolvelib/candidates.py", line 159, in __init__
    self.dist = self._prepare()
                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/codespace/.python/current/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pip/_internal/resolution/resolvelib/candidates.py", line 236, in _prepare
    dist = self._prepare_distribution()
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/codespace/.python/current/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pip/_internal/resolution/resolvelib/candidates.py", line 315, in _prepare_distribution
    return preparer.prepare_linked_requirement(self._ireq, parallel_builds=True)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/codespace/.python/current/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pip/_internal/operations/prepare.py", line 527, in prepare_linked_requirement
    return self._prepare_linked_requirement(req, parallel_builds)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/codespace/.python/current/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pip/_internal/operations/prepare.py", line 642, in _prepare_linked_requirement
    dist = _get_prepared_distribution(
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/codespace/.python/current/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pip/_internal/operations/prepare.py", line 72, in _get_prepared_distribution
    abstract_dist.prepare_distribution_metadata(
  File "/home/codespace/.python/current/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pip/_internal/distributions/sdist.py", line 56, in prepare_distribution_metadata
    self._install_build_reqs(finder)
  File "/home/codespace/.python/current/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pip/_internal/distributions/sdist.py", line 126, in _install_build_reqs
    build_reqs = self._get_build_requires_wheel()
                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/codespace/.python/current/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pip/_internal/distributions/sdist.py", line 103, in _get_build_requires_wheel
    return backend.get_requires_for_build_wheel()
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/codespace/.python/current/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pip/_internal/utils/misc.py", line 701, in get_requires_for_build_wheel
    return super().get_requires_for_build_wheel(config_settings=cs)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/codespace/.python/current/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pyproject_hooks/_impl.py", line 166, in get_requires_for_build_wheel
    return self._call_hook('get_requires_for_build_wheel', {
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/codespace/.python/current/lib/python3.12/si2025-01-03 10:41:36.205Z: te-packages/pip/_vendor/pyproject_hooks/_impl.py", line 321, in _call_hook
    raise BackendUnavailable(data.get('traceback', ''))
pip._vendor.pyproject_hooks._impl.BackendUnavailable: Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/codespace/.python/current/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pyproject_hooks/_in_process/_in_process.py", line 77, in _build_backend
    obj = import_module(mod_path)
          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/codespace/.python/current/lib/python3.12/importlib/__init__.py", line 90, in import_module
    return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1387, in _gcd_import
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1360, in _find_and_load
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1310, in _find_and_load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 488, in _call_with_frames_removed
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1387, in _gcd_import
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1360, in _find_and_load
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1331, in _find_and_load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 935, in _load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 994, in exec_module
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 488, in _call_with_frames_removed
  File "/tmp/pip-build-env-hwlo8pz0/overlay/lib/python3.12/site-packages/setuptools/__init__.py", line 10, in <module>
    import distutils.core
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils'

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This fixed it for me: DevSecNinja@a257b5c

Seems like an issue with Python 3.12. I can strongly recommend to version pin the devcontainer image as it will prevent these issues in the future and make troubleshooting easier.