zipimport.ZipImportError: can't decompress data; zlib not available on macOS

Inspect or clean up the working tree at /var/folders/n3/ws0911_179dfk_rfxwhq6dvr0000gn/T/python-build.20190523131052.99380
Results logged to /var/folders/n3/ws0911_179dfk_rfxwhq6dvr0000gn/T/python-build.20190523131052.99380.log

Last 10 log lines:
  File "/private/var/folders/n3/ws0911_179dfk_rfxwhq6dvr0000gn/T/python-build.20190523131052.99380/Python-3.7.2/Lib/ensurepip/__main__.py", line 5, in <module>
    sys.exit(ensurepip._main())
  File "/private/var/folders/n3/ws0911_179dfk_rfxwhq6dvr0000gn/T/python-build.20190523131052.99380/Python-3.7.2/Lib/ensurepip/__init__.py", line 204, in _main
    default_pip=args.default_pip,
  File "/private/var/folders/n3/ws0911_179dfk_rfxwhq6dvr0000gn/T/python-build.20190523131052.99380/Python-3.7.2/Lib/ensurepip/__init__.py", line 117, in _bootstrap
    return _run_pip(args + [p[0] for p in _PROJECTS], additional_paths)
  File "/private/var/folders/n3/ws0911_179dfk_rfxwhq6dvr0000gn/T/python-build.20190523131052.99380/Python-3.7.2/Lib/ensurepip/__init__.py", line 27, in _run_pip
    import pip._internal
zipimport.ZipImportError: can't decompress data; zlib not available
make: *** [install] Error 1
   Exiting due to failure

I followed the note but still doesn’t work. I’m using macOS v10.14.4.

> ~/Code  echo $LDFLAGS
-L/usr/local/opt/zlib/lib
> ~/Code  echo $CPPFLAGS
-I/usr/local/opt/zlib/include

[anton-syrovatka]

I had the same issue with installing python from this script. This helped me bypass the issue: brew install pyenv pyenv install 3.7.2

[ursulac]

@Rokt33r I also had the zlib error but I was simply able to run brew install awsebcli and it works now (from here https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg/eb-cli3-install-osx.html)