distutils has been removed for python 3.12 and above

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distutils has been removed for python 3.12 and above #1071

Closed peanutsee closed 7 months ago

peanutsee commented 7 months ago

Describe the bug

After pip install mlxtend, ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils' error appears. After investigating, it seems that distutils had been removed from standard library in python 3.12 and above.

Possible fix

Third-party Setuptools package continues to provide distutils.

peanutsee commented 7 months ago

This issue is fixed in PR #1072 . Thanks @rasbt for reviewing and closing the PR!