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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Remove dependency on deprecated distutils","articleBody":"The distutils module has been deprecated and will be removed in Python3.12: https://docs.python.org/3.11/library/distutils.html\r\n\r\nsetuptools also discourages using its vendored version: https://setuptools.pypa.io/en/latest/deprecated/distutils-legacy.html#prefer-setuptools\r\n\r\n\r\nThe explicit `distutils` dependency / import in `abstract_operations_client.py` is only needed for one call to `distutils.util.strtobool()`: https://github.com/googleapis/python-api-core/blob/7dfc3a7a439243f05238a11b68a31720fde1769e/google/api_core/operations_v1/abstract_operations_client.py#L297\r\n\r\nWe encountered this under Python3.10 due to the way we build / run our code under Docker. This can be easily circumvented in our case by installing the `python3-distutils` Debian package, but the dependency should probably be removed from this package.\r\n\r\n#### Environment details\r\n\r\n  - OS type and version: Linux 218300304P 6.1.0-9-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.1.27-1 (2023-05-08) x86_64 GNU/Linux\r\n  - Python version: Python 3.12.0b2\r\n  - pip version: pip 23.1.2 from /tmp/venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pip (python 3.12)\r\n  - `google-api-core` version: ```Name: google-api-core\r\nVersion: 2.11.0\r\nSummary: Google API client core library\r\nHome-page: https://github.com/googleapis/python-api-core\r\nAuthor: Google LLC\r\nAuthor-email: googleapis-packages@google.com\r\nLicense: Apache 2.0\r\nLocation: /tmp/venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages\r\nRequires: google-auth, googleapis-common-protos, protobuf, requests\r\nRequired-by:```\r\n\r\n#### Steps to reproduce\r\n\r\n  1. `python3.12 -m venv /tmp/venv`\r\n  2. `/tmp/venv/bin/pip install google-api-core`\r\n\r\n\r\n#### Code example\r\n\r\n```python\r\nfrom google.api_core.operations_v1.abstract_operations_client import AbstractOperationsClient\r\n```\r\n\r\n#### Stack trace\r\n```\r\nTraceback (most recent call last):\r\n  File \"\u003cstring\u003e\", line 1, in \u003cmodule\u003e\r\n  File \"/tmp/venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/google/api_core/operations_v1/__init__.py\", line 17, in \u003cmodule\u003e\r\n    from google.api_core.operations_v1.abstract_operations_client import AbstractOperationsClient\r\n  File \"/tmp/venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/google/api_core/operations_v1/abstract_operations_client.py\", line 17, in \u003cmodule\u003e\r\n    from distutils import util\r\nModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils'\r\n```\r\n\r\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/noirbee","@type":"Person","name":"noirbee"},"datePublished":"2023-06-13T12:50:51.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":1},"url":"https://github.com/507/python-api-core/issues/507"}