Merge pull request #2866 into main.

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diff --git a/setuptools/launch.py b/setuptools/launch.py
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+"""
+Launch the Python script on the command line after
+setuptools is bootstrapped via import.
+"""
+
+# Note that setuptools gets imported implicitly by the
+# invocation of this script using python -m setuptools.launch
+
+import tokenize
+import sys
+
+
+def run():
+    """
+    Run the script in sys.argv[1] as if it had
+    been invoked naturally.
+    """
+    __builtins__
+    script_name = sys.argv[1]
+    namespace = dict(
+        __file__=script_name,
+        __name__='__main__',
+        __doc__=None,
+    )
+    sys.argv[:] = sys.argv[1:]
+
+    open_ = getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)
+    with open_(script_name) as fid:
+        script = fid.read()
+    norm_script = script.replace('\\r\\n', '\\n')
+    code = compile(norm_script, script_name, 'exec')
+    exec(code, namespace)
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    run()