Cannot built Matlab.engine python package

I am trying to build python 2 matlab.engine package on Mac I tried Ventura and BigSur with the following matlab versions: matlab_R2022b_maci64 and matlab_R2022a_maci64

Installing for Python 3 works but for Python 2.7 does not even though Python 2.7 is listed as supported. The error I am getting is below. Any hints to resolve this?

 File "setup.py", line 84, in _generate_arch_file
      _arch = self._find_arch(_bin_dir)
    File "setup.py", line 67, in _find_arch
      raise EnvironmentError('The installation of MATLAB is corrupted.  '
  EnvironmentError: The installation of MATLAB is corrupted.  Please reinstall MATLAB or contact Technical Support for assistance.

Answer 1

[Vadim Chavarha]

In case someone else runs into this issue. pip installation works only with Python 3. For Python 2 use

    python setup.py install