I do note that using import distutils rather than the vendored copy does work.

The point of PR #1700 was to move off distutils as it is being deprecated, as @henryiii mentioned.

There I was already trying to do the guard that @henryiii suggests

https://github.com/xrootd/xrootd/blob/8e1e528232d8ead08468eefcbf991737eb5751da/bindings/python/setup.py.in#L3-L19

though as to

Where does the import setuptools fail, though?

this was attempted in PR #1585, but

This PR was meant to also change:

distutils.setup -> setuptools.setup

distutils.sysconfig -> CPython's sysconfig

but it seems that these are still required given the current state of the build and will need to be revised in a later PR.

I don't remember where exactly this failed, so let me post this and rerun the Docker build that is described there.

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