Inline the usage of distutils to mitigate the issue caused by removal

[ReaNAiveD]

distutils is removed from Python 3.12. Try inline the import of it to mitigate the issue it caused

  File "/mnt/vss/_work/1/s/env/lib/python3.12/site-packages/azdev/operations/pypi.py", line 11, in <module>
    from distutils.version import LooseVersion  # pylint:disable=import-error,no-name-in-module,deprecated-module
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils'

[Copilot]

Pull Request Overview

This PR addresses the removal of the global distutils.version import by inlining its usage where needed in the pypi operations and bumps the package version.

• Inlines the import of LooseVersion from distutils.version within the _compare_module_against_pypi function to mitigate removal issues.
• Updates the package version from 0.1.97 to 0.1.98.

Reviewed Changes

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File	Description
azdev/operations/pypi.py	Inlines the distutils.version import inside a function call.
azdev/init.py	Updates the module version to reflect the latest changes.

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[AllyW]

distutils is required in azdev cli check-versions which now is not used neither in cli main repo nor in cli extension repo.

If azdev cli check-versions is required, we need to migrate its distutils usages. If azdev cli check-versions is no longer needed, please remember to remove it.

[AllyW]