ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils'

[metaperl]

• I am on the latest Pendulum version.

• [x ] I have searched the issues of this repo and believe that this is not a duplicate.

• OS version and name: Windows 11

• Pendulum version: attempting to install with PyPI

Issue

Attempting pip install pendulum on Windows leads to the error ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils'

PS C:\code\tmp\replay_request> pip install pendulum
Defaulting to user installation because normal site-packages is not writeable
Collecting pendulum
  Downloading pendulum-2.1.2.tar.gz (81 kB)
     ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 81.2/81.2 kB 506.6 kB/s eta 0:00:00
  Installing build dependencies ... done
  Getting requirements to build wheel ... done
  Preparing metadata (pyproject.toml) ... done
Requirement already satisfied: python-dateutil<3.0,>=2.6 in c:\users\thequ\appdata\local\packages\pythonsoftwarefoundation.python.3.12_qbz5n2kfra8p0\localcache\local-packages\python312\site-packages (from pendulum) (2.8.2)
Collecting pytzdata>=2020.1 (from pendulum)
  Downloading pytzdata-2020.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl (489 kB)
     ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 490.0/490.0 kB 6.2 MB/s eta 0:00:00
Requirement already satisfied: six>=1.5 in c:\users\thequ\appdata\local\packages\pythonsoftwarefoundation.python.3.12_qbz5n2kfra8p0\localcache\local-packages\python312\site-packages (from python-dateutil<3.0,>=2.6->pendulum) (1.16.0)
Building wheels for collected packages: pendulum
  Building wheel for pendulum (pyproject.toml) ... error
  error: subprocess-exited-with-error

  × Building wheel for pendulum (pyproject.toml) did not run successfully.
  │ exit code: 1
  ╰─> [27 lines of output]
      Traceback (most recent call last):
        File "C:\Users\thequ\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-e8iysas4\pendulum_8cf276dbb0bd44fabb6b0c9c9a5b1c43\build.py", line 5, in <module>
          from distutils.command.build_ext import build_ext
      ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils'
      Traceback (most recent call last):
        File "C:\Users\thequ\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.12_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python312\site-packages\pip\_vendor\pyproject_hooks\_in_process\_in_process.py", line 353, in <module>
          main()
        File "C:\Users\thequ\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.12_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python312\site-packages\pip\_vendor\pyproject_hooks\_in_process\_in_process.py", line 335, in main
          json_out['return_val'] = hook(**hook_input['kwargs'])
                                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
        File "C:\Users\thequ\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.12_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python312\site-packages\pip\_vendor\pyproject_hooks\_in_process\_in_process.py", line 251, in build_wheel
          return _build_backend().build_wheel(wheel_directory, config_settings,
                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
        File "C:\Users\thequ\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-j_isg7uq\overlay\Lib\site-packages\poetry\core\masonry\api.py", line 58, in build_wheel
          return WheelBuilder.make_in(
                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
        File "C:\Users\thequ\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-j_isg7uq\overlay\Lib\site-packages\poetry\core\masonry\builders\wheel.py", line 88, in make_in
          wb.build(target_dir=directory)
        File "C:\Users\thequ\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-j_isg7uq\overlay\Lib\site-packages\poetry\core\masonry\builders\wheel.py", line 123, in build
          self._build(zip_file)
        File "C:\Users\thequ\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-j_isg7uq\overlay\Lib\site-packages\poetry\core\masonry\builders\wheel.py", line 172, in _build
          self._run_build_script(self._package.build_script)
        File "C:\Users\thequ\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-j_isg7uq\overlay\Lib\site-packages\poetry\core\masonry\builders\wheel.py", line 266, in _run_build_script
          subprocess.check_call([self.executable.as_posix(), build_script])
        File "C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.12_3.12.240.0_x64__qbz5n2kfra8p0\Lib\subprocess.py", line 413, in check_call
          raise CalledProcessError(retcode, cmd)
      subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '['C:/Users/thequ/AppData/Local/Microsoft/WindowsApps/PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.12_qbz5n2kfra8p0/python.exe', 'build.py']' returned non-zero exit status 1.
      [end of output]

  note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
  ERROR: Failed building wheel for pendulum
Failed to build pendulum
ERROR: Could not build wheels for pendulum, which is required to install pyproject.toml-based projects
PS C:\code\tmp\replay_request> 

[edgarrmondragon]

Probably a duplicate of #696