Make distutils optional

* move the import of distutils to where it is required
* also catches ModuleNotFoundErrors occuring from 3.12 onwards

Signed-off-by: Adrian Braemer <[email protected]>

Author: abraemer

whipper/command/main.py

@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@
 import musicbrainzngs
 import site
 import whipper
-from distutils.sysconfig import get_python_lib
 from whipper.command import cd, offset, drive, image, accurip, mblookup
 from whipper.command.basecommand import BaseCommand
 from whipper.common import common, directory, config
@@ -38,11 +37,16 @@ def main():
     # Find whipper's plugins paths (local paths have higher priority)
     plugins_p = [directory.data_path('plugins')]  # local path (in $HOME)
     if hasattr(sys, 'real_prefix'):  # no getsitepackages() in virtualenv
-        plugins_p.append(
-            get_python_lib(plat_specific=False, standard_lib=False,
-                           prefix='/usr/local') + '/whipper/plugins')
-        plugins_p.append(get_python_lib(plat_specific=False,
-                         standard_lib=False) + '/whipper/plugins')
+        try:
+            from distutils.sysconfig import get_python_lib
+            plugins_p.append(
+                get_python_lib(plat_specific=False, standard_lib=False,
+                            prefix='/usr/local') + '/whipper/plugins')
+            plugins_p.append(get_python_lib(plat_specific=False,
+                            standard_lib=False) + '/whipper/plugins')
+        except ModuleNotFoundError:
+            logger.error("Failed to import distutils. Some plugins might "
+                         "be unavailable.")
     else:
         plugins_p += [x + '/whipper/plugins' for x in site.getsitepackages()]