Replace removed distutils with shutil.which - #215
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distutils was removed from the stdlib in Python 3.12, breaking all imports of ctaplot on 3.12+. shutil.which is the drop-in replacement for distutils.spawn.find_executable. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01KyTy3FkRXDmP3UTLAnCtht
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CI fails on Python 3.12/3.13 with 6 collection errors, all from the same root cause:
distutilswas removed from the standard library in Python 3.12 (PEP 632).Fix
shutil.whichis the stdlib replacement fordistutils.spawn.find_executable— same call signature, sameNone-if-not-found semantics — so it's a direct swap incheck_latex().Verified
import ctaplotsucceeds andcheck_latex()still detects a LaTeX install locally.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
https://claude.ai/code/session_01KyTy3FkRXDmP3UTLAnCtht