""" Ensure that the local copy of distutils is preferred over stdlib. See https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/issues/417#issuecomment-392298401 for more motivation. """ import sys import re import importlib import warnings def clear_distutils(): if 'distutils' not in sys.modules: return warnings.warn("Setuptools is replacing distutils") mods = [name for name in sys.modules if re.match(r'distutils\b', name)] for name in mods: del sys.modules[name] def ensure_local_distutils(): clear_distutils() distutils = importlib.import_module('setuptools._distutils') distutils.__name__ = 'distutils' sys.modules['distutils'] = distutils # sanity check that submodules load as expected core = importlib.import_module('distutils.core') assert '_distutils' in core.__file__, core.__file__ ensure_local_distutils()