ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils'

[amoghmadan]

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils'
The new release of setuptools -> 77.0.1 has started to cause a problem.

File "/Users/laptop/project/venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/django_elasticsearch_dsl_drf/versions.py", line 6, in <module>
    from distutils.version import LooseVersion
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils'

Environment

Python environment: 3.12

1. pip list
2. python --version

Which version of Elasticsearch are you using? 7.10.1

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. python manage.py runserver

Expected behavior
The development server should run.

Screenshots
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