How do I resolve not fully installed package (python3-setuptools)?

Question

I was trying to install python3-setuptools, and when i run

$ sudo apt-get install python3-setuptools

I get this error:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 6 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up python3-setuptools (0.6.34-0ubuntu1) ...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/py3compile", line 36, in <module>
    from debpython import files as dpf
  File "/usr/share/python3/debpython/files.py", line 25, in <module>
    from debpython.pydist import PUBLIC_DIR_RE
  File "/usr/share/python3/debpython/pydist.py", line 28, in <module>
    from debpython.tools import memoize
  File "/usr/share/python3/debpython/tools.py", line 25, in <module>
    from datetime import datetime
ImportError: /usr/bin/datetime.so: undefined symbol: _Py_ZeroStruct
dpkg: error processing python3-setuptools (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 python3-setuptools
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

I tried apt-get clean , apt-get autoclean , apt-get remove python3-setuptools , dpkg --remove python3-setuptools , but none of them worked.

Answer 1

Try

sudo apt-get --force-yes remove #your-package-name#

and then

sudo apt autoremove

Finally, you can remove all the packages that not fully installed or removed.