Colcon Build fails on newly created package

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I'm starting my first ROS2 project. I followed the tutorial to create a workspace: https://index.ros.org/doc/ros2/Tutori... Then moved on to the tutorial to create my own package: https://index.ros.org/doc/ros2/Tutori... At Step 2 of the "Create my own package" -That is, to say I ran

source ~/ros2_foxy/install/setup.bash
mkdir -p jeri_ws/src
cd jeri_ws/src
ros2 pkg create --build-type ament_cmake jeri_base
cd ..
colcon build

(This passed no problem) But then I realized I wanted the skeleton of the "node" flag, so I found an answer answers.ros.org/question/330109/ros2-... saying to delete the folders created by ros2 pkg create and re-attempt. No problem.

cd ~/jeri_ws
rm -r build logs install
cd src
rm -r jeri_base
ros2 pkg create --build-type ament_cmake --node-name hello-world_node jeri_base
cd ..
colcon build

Then I get the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):ngoing] [examples_rclcpp_multithreaded_executor:build 100% - 1min 32.0s] ...
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/distutils/core.py", line 227, in run_setup
    script_name)
RuntimeError: 'distutils.core.setup()' was never called -- perhaps 'setup.py' is not a Distutils setup script?
--- stderr: jeri_base                                                                                         
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/jetbot/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/colcon_core/executor/__init__.py", line 91, in __call__
    rc = await self.task(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/home/jetbot/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/colcon_core/task/__init__.py", line 93, in __call__
    return await task_method(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/home/jetbot/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/colcon_ros/task/ament_python/build.py", line 51, in build
    setup_py_data = get_setup_data(self.context.pkg, env)
  File "/home/jetbot/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/colcon_core/task/python/__init__.py", line 20, in get_setup_data
    return dict(pkg.metadata[key](env))
  File "/home/jetbot/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/colcon_ros/package_identification/ros.py", line 130, in getter
    desc.path / 'setup.py', env=env)
  File "/home/jetbot/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/colcon_python_setup_py/package_identification/python_setup_py.py", line 242, in get_setup_information
    setup_py, env=env)
  File "/home/jetbot/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/colcon_python_setup_py/package_identification/python_setup_py.py", line 283, in _get_setup_information
    cwd=os.path.abspath(str(setup_py.parent)), check=True, env=env)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/subprocess.py", line 438, in run
    output=stdout, stderr=stderr)
subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '['/usr/bin/python3', '-c', "import sys;from setuptools.extern.packaging.specifiers import SpecifierSet;from distutils.core import run_setup;dist = run_setup(    'setup.py', script_args=('--dry-run',), stop_after='config');skip_keys = ('cmdclass', 'distclass', 'ext_modules', 'metadata');data = {    key: value for key, value in dist.__dict__.items()     if (        not key.startswith('_') and         not callable(value) and         key not in skip_keys and         key not in dist.display_option_names    )};data['metadata'] = {    k: v for k, v in dist.metadata.__dict__.items()     if k not in ('license_files', 'provides_extras')};sys.stdout.buffer.write(repr(data).encode('utf-8'))"]' returned non-zero exit status 1.
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Failed   <<< jeri_base [6.52s, exited with code 1]
Aborted  <<< turtlesim [5.80s]
Aborted  <<< examples_rclcpp_multithreaded_executor [1min 32s]
Aborted  <<< examples_rclpy_minimal_subscriber [20.1s]

Summary: 14 packages finished [2min 20s]
  1 package failed ...