ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils'

[ricpelo]

Installing amc2moodle using pipx on Debian GNU/Linux "trixie" I get the following error:

$ pipx install amc2moodle
  installed package amc2moodle 2.10.3, installed using Python 3.12.6
  These apps are now globally available
    - amc2moodle
    - moodle2amc
done! ✨ 🌟 ✨
$ amc2moodle
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/ricardo/.local/bin/amc2moodle", line 23, in <module>
    from amc2moodle.amc2moodle import amc2moodle_class as a2m
  File "/home/ricardo/.local/pipx/venvs/amc2moodle/lib/python3.12/site-packages/amc2moodle/amc2moodle/amc2moodle_class.py", line 30, in <module>
    from distutils.dir_util import copy_tree
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils'

[luclaurent]

Same behaviour on macos. Probably due to depreciation of distutils

[nennigb]

What is your version of python ?

[luclaurent]

Two solutions could be considered:

• add setuptools as requirement: it includes distutils
• remove the use to distutils and replace it by shutil as we only need to use copytree: this change leads to remove python 3.7 compatibility

[luclaurent]

@nennigb see branch for the second solution of my previous post

[nennigb]

Python 3.7 is now unsupported (EOL june 2023), so it is not a big deal. The oldest still supported version is now 3.8.
I will have a look on your branch.
I didn't succeed to reproduce the original problem with pip, neither on my linux machine, neither on the CI.

[luclaurent]

With pip no issue probably due to the fact that setuptools is installed when you create a new environment.
With pipx (pip install pipx) it does not work.

[nennigb]

OK, probably, I will check. In my python 3.12 install I can still import disutils, and I have setuptools installed...

Your modifications looks fine (see the comment in the code)
You can create a PR with a clean rebase on the master ;-)
In the CIs you can remove python 3.7