distutils is removed in Python 3.12

[clauseggers]

As per https://docs.python.org/3.12/whatsnew/3.12.html distutils is removed from Python 3.12
Of note, the distutils package has been removed from the standard library.

Executing sncli now throws ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils'

[N0ury]

Hi,

Here's how I've solved this issue in simplenote_cli/clipboard.py

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import os
-from distutils import spawn
+from shutil import which
 from subprocess import Popen, PIPE
 
 
@@ -8,9 +8,9 @@
         self.copy_command = self.get_copy_command()
 
     def get_copy_command(self):
-        if (spawn.find_executable('xsel')):
+        if (which('xsel')):
             return ['xsel', '-ib']
-        if (spawn.find_executable('pbcopy')):
+        if (which('pbcopy')):
             return ['pbcopy']
         return None

[N0ury]

Closed with this commit

@clauseggers please close the issue