Removed use of distutils and drop support for Python 3.7 #860
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Description
The
distutils
package is deprecates since Python 3.12 and has to be removed. The only function we used fromdistutils
wasdistutils.dir_util.copy_tree()
. This function can be replaced withshutil.copytree()
.However,
shutil.copytree()
got the neededdirs_exist_ok
argument in Python 3.8, which means that we have to drop support for Python 3.7. This is acceptable, since Python 3.7 reached end-of-life in June 2023.Type of change
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